Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 2 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 3 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 4 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 5 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 6 | they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round |
| 7 | But they had been few in number . |
| 8 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 9 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 10 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 11 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 12 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 13 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |