Example sentences of "they [vb base] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 2 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 3 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 4 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They have been members of some very dodgy Latvian old-pais club but nothing else is known . |
| 8 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 9 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 10 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |