Example sentences of "they [vb base] been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 2 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 3 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 4 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 5 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 6 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 7 | they 've been done for many years |
| 8 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 9 | Duty-free allowances will be phased out eventually , but they 've been reprieved until 1999 . |
| 10 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 11 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 12 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 13 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 14 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 15 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 16 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 17 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 18 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 19 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 20 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 21 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 22 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 23 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 24 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 25 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 26 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 27 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |
| 28 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 29 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 30 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |