Example sentences of "they [verb] been [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could they have been any worse , do you think ? ’ |
| 2 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 3 | I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots . |
| 4 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 6 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 7 | 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 . |