Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 2 | Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made . |
| 3 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 4 | Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated . |
| 5 | They 'd both been riding clouds that morning , now this . |
| 6 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 7 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 8 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 9 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 10 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 11 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 12 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 13 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 14 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 15 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 16 | Preston enquired , thinking they 'd probably been put down years ago , but the Flying Horses were alive and kicking and in at least as good a shape as she was . |
| 17 | I thought they 'd already been done |
| 18 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 19 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 20 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 21 | They 'd apparently been smothered . |
| 22 | They 'd apparently been suffocated . |
| 23 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 24 | I heard they 'd all been killed . |
| 25 | They 'd all been made by small independent producers from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire and Devon . |
| 26 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 27 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 28 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 29 | ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome , they 'll wish they 'd never been born ! ’ |
| 30 | I 'll make those bastards wish they 'd never been born ! ’ he added savagely , before grabbing the telephone and calling his office in London . |