Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
2 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
3 | They show the Deee-Lite dictionary they have been compiling — nearly 400 words that includes slang from around the world , Esperanto and Deee-Lite 's own language . |
4 | All the buying they 've been doing must be starting to hurt . |
5 | As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months . |
6 | The water-proofed red notices warn drivers they have been reported and to get taxed at once or face a possible £1,000 fine . |
7 | I think , Chairman , that 's still subject to approval by the E A B , erm , which is at the end of the day , the important party that has to be satisfied , so , these are very successful negotiations , but we , we 're still awaiting erm , confirmation they 've been accepted . |
8 | But I 'd be grateful for anything — even some idea of the scale of the funds they 've been filching . |
9 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
10 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
11 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
12 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
13 | All the seats had been taken , but once Myeloski had waved his warrant-card at the ticket-desk they had been given seats . |
14 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
15 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
16 | The point also is that some , more than others , remember the sins they have been forgiven and are therefore more consciously grateful . |
17 | At the same time by increasing their expenditure programmes at a rate far greater than the growth in tax revenue they have been led into creating inflation . |
18 | We have organised for every eventuality and the players feel comfortable with the roles they have been given . ’ |
19 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
20 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
21 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
22 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
23 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
24 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
25 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
26 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
27 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
28 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
29 | No wonder they had been covered up . |
30 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |