Example sentences of "they have [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that holiday they er they 'd also been to Cairo as well as , and I mean some of the erm trips erm are they go to Luxor and you board a erm er the ship from Luxor to Aswan and you do n't get to Cairo and I think if you 're going to Egypt you really want to go to Cairo |
| 2 | Well they 'd already been to the pantomime at your school so you 'll have to wait till next year now . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 4 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 5 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 6 | That were in the freezer and they 'd obviously been in there for a bit too long . |
| 7 | ‘ So if anyone wants to be on television in America , they 'd better be at my party . ’ |
| 8 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 9 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 10 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 11 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 12 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 14 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 15 | They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’ |
| 16 | They 've already been to the Jonquil because of Sabine 's death . |
| 17 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 18 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
| 19 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 20 | Children should always wash their hands before handling food , particularly if they 've recently been in contact with pets . |
| 21 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 22 | Erm the loyalist paramilitaries have become much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in their history . |
| 23 | They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past . |
| 24 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 25 | You realise they 've all been at it a lot longer than I have . |
| 26 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 27 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 28 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 29 | Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in . |
| 30 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |