Example sentences of "they have be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 3 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 4 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 5 | It had been an exciting day for the children : they 'd been to watch pedal-car racing at the village school and the older ones had spent the afternoon in the garden with Monika making brightly coloured carnival masks . |
| 6 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 7 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 8 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 9 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 10 | Derek said they 'd been having sex ! |
| 11 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 12 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 13 | said they 'd been recording things for her wanting to see what she does see when she 's old . |
| 14 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 15 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 16 | Of two hundred and forty people who returned their questionaires to the students union , seventy nine per cent said they 'd been offered drugs . |
| 17 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 18 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 19 | You could rarely get a straight answer from any of them , they 'd been dodging questions about his father for so long ; evasion was a way of life with them . |
| 20 | Certainly most members of the general public will have heard of the Draize test for detecting the irritant potential of cosmetics , or perhaps the more widely used LD50 , nor will they have been spared photographs of immobilised creatures in plaintive lines . |
| 21 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 22 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 23 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 24 | They 've been chasing Richard all round the grass , all round the lawn . |
| 25 | He says it 's going to get bigger and bigger and alot of our pasture land is going to be cannabis plantations and they 're going to be legal ones because they 've been granted licences to possess and grow it . |
| 26 | AT best , they 've been called cranks . |
| 27 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 28 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 29 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 30 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |