Example sentences of "they [verb] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 3 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 4 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 5 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 6 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 7 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 8 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 9 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 10 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 11 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 12 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 13 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 14 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 15 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 16 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 17 | They had been desires to be quenched , as he had quenched other desires over the years . |
| 18 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 19 | They have been champions of various things in four of the past five seasons compared with only two previous post-war Welsh Championships and one cup . |
| 20 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |
| 21 | They have been members of some very dodgy Latvian old-pais club but nothing else is known . |
| 22 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |
| 23 | ‘ Everybody marvelled at Clive 's goal in the replay against Chester but he 's scored 11 goals this season and 10 of them have been screamers like that . ’ |
| 24 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |