Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it . |
| 2 | Even the knowledge that they 'd been invited to submit ideas would be like a shot of adrenalin . |
| 3 | They 'd been seen boarding the street-car with Joey still asking — ‘ Where 's Noreen ? ’ |
| 4 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 5 | That 's what they 'd been told to do . |
| 6 | It had n't been what they 'd been told to expect by the Daily Mail . |
| 7 | obviously , er they th they 'd been known they 'd been known to come , er and try and have a meeting . |
| 8 | He and his friends would have seen that if they 'd been allowed to talk for a bit . |
| 9 | In his ward at the Waterloo they 'd been allowed to smoke for an hour a day . |
| 10 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 11 | The estate is boycotted by hire firms , so they 'd been forced to buy a television and washing machine new . |
| 12 | ‘ Would they have been destroyed do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 14 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 15 | If you delegate it , then the authority need to get these forms in , get to actually doing what they 've been asked to do . |
| 16 | NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action . |
| 17 | The major problem is likely to be that enterprising ‘ try-outers ’ will hack the code they 've been given to play with and render the program fully usable if companies merely decrement a counter and destroy its function once it reaches zero as you suggest . |
| 18 | Yeah , I do n't know why they do that , I was gon na ask that , why they chop those off , look like they 've been vandalized do n't they ? |
| 19 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 20 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 21 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 22 | Yeah , they 've been told to cut down on the spending . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 24 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 25 | What they 've been told has led to the establishment of a major police investigation , assisted by three full time social workers , going back over 20 years . |
| 26 | So , we 'll forget all that , and we 'll just assume that what Freud really meant , was that people have sense of guilt because they 've been socialized to have it . |
| 27 | As far as the Nottinghamshire erm thing the reason Notts are having to close it is because the they 've been capped have n't they and they 've got ta save money . |
| 28 | They 've been issued to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan . |
| 29 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 30 | The company makes parts such as landing gear and propellors for the airospace industry — hard hit by the recession they 've been forced to streamline their operation , shedding three hundred and twenty four jobs . |