Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 2 | Oh , they 've been here about a few years now . |
| 3 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 4 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 5 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 6 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 7 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 8 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 9 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 10 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 11 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 12 | Disorientated by the smothering blackness surrounding them , she herself had completely lost her sense of direction — until they had been midway along the passage . |
| 13 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 14 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |