Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 2 | It would have been better to cover them with a tarpaulin , but he had forgotten to bring one , perhaps . |
| 3 | The four — and a sick Jon Tinker who had been unable to accompany them on the summit bid — scrambled from the disintegrating tent at 9am on Christmas Eve and fled downhill . |
| 4 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 5 | Historically it has been convenient to explore them as an evolution from the works of Euclid . |