Example sentences of "they [verb] been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 2 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 3 | They 'd been entwined in an embrace , and Sandy 's hair had been spread like a fan ; by Aldridge 's account it had been a touching , harrowing sight . |
| 4 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 5 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 6 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 7 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 8 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 9 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 10 | They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland . |
| 11 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 12 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 13 | The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they 'd been draped in a blanket . |
| 14 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |
| 15 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 16 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 17 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 18 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 19 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 20 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 21 | All we would like to do in the lab is make that same compound in a different way , and many of the compounds which are used are the same as those found in nature , the only difference is they 've been prepared in a test tube instead of being prepared in a plant . |
| 22 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 23 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 24 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 25 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 26 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 27 | Because they 've been pressured into an opinion on one particular aspect of their letter . |
| 28 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 29 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 30 | But this week they 've been confronted by a whole host of vegetarian dishes . |