Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 2 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 3 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 4 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 5 | Well it 's how long they 've been going , I suppose . |
| 6 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 7 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 11 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 13 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 14 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 15 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 16 | Perhaps they have been finding our simulated version of you know , to be there early , and to be there late , and sometimes be there Saturday and Sunday as well . |
| 17 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 18 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 19 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 20 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 21 | So they 've been slimmed down . |
| 22 | So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch |
| 23 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 24 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 25 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 26 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 27 | so they have been considered . |
| 28 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 29 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 30 | Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect . |