Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 2 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 3 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 4 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 5 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 6 | Erm so the Communist Party , to try to counter this sort of erm advance of the rich peasant economy which they saw was getting a bit too far , tried to encourage the formation of mutual aid teams erm but they were very , there were problems in that in erm the implementation of this because peasants were unwilling to share their tools , they were n't compensated for it . |
| 7 | What they did was to provide an opportunity to debate these issues , at the same time giving support to teachers . |
| 8 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 9 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 10 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 11 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 12 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 13 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 14 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 15 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
| 16 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 17 | At this school in Oxford they 've been running an arts week , helping the children to write their own play and make the scenery . |
| 18 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 19 | I I do n't wish to , to quibble but is actually a cost minus basis industry is not being paid its full costs for this programme , they 've been paid a percentage less than the cost they actually incur . |
| 20 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 21 | They had been given a family room , from which Monsieur Gauthier had obligingly removed one of the three single beds in order to provide the space Iris required for her daily yoga session . |
| 22 | They had been given a meal there but had refused to stay overnight . |
| 23 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 24 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 25 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 26 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 27 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 28 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 29 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 30 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |