Example sentences of "and they have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 2 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Aunt Elena was Mother 's room-mate at school in Switzerland and they 've been best friends ever since . |
| 5 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 6 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |
| 7 | The couple said some of Timothy 's bandages had been removed and they had been relieved they could still recognise him in spite of his severe facial injuries . |
| 8 | And they had been plump and well-dressed . |
| 9 | And they had been good years . |
| 10 | She was special — and they had been good together . |
| 11 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 12 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 13 | It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running . |
| 14 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 15 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 16 | oh , and they 'd been married , what she 's ten years older than you had been married |
| 17 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 18 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 19 | I have sent many patients there and they have been delighted with the treatment and the care they have received on Merseyside . |
| 20 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |