Example sentences of "and they have [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 4 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 7 | But no charges have been brought and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 8 | No charges have been brought , and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 9 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 10 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 11 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 12 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 13 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 14 | The question they had to answer was quite simple , and they had been told by the seneschal that he had been told that it was an empirical question , not a purely theoretical one , though he had also said he found this difficult to believe , as even the mysterious powers and forces which moved the Wars themselves could not control such absolutes . |
| 15 | They had stayed to eat with the family of Chola 's former husband , and they had been feasted with raksi and rice and the meat of the sacrificial goat . |
| 16 | One had been in Cornwall , the other in Monmouthshire , and they had been loaded with margarine and tinned peaches respectively . |
| 17 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 20 | And they have been renewed on an alarming scale since the crisis started . |
| 21 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We have had a string of complaints about rats from the allotments and they have been kept in a very poor condition . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My trees are kept in the garden and they have been covered with snow and frozen solid in the winter but they have all survived . |
| 24 | Wolverhampton has already submitted two proposals for surplus places and they have been rejected by the Government . |
| 25 | And they have been characterized by a Western bias that permeates education in general . |
| 26 | And they have been rewarded for it . |
| 27 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 28 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 29 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 30 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |