Example sentences of "they 've been [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 2 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 3 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 4 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 5 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 6 | They 've been given a fortnight to find £8,000 . |
| 7 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 8 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 9 | I I do n't wish to , to quibble but is actually a cost minus basis industry is not being paid its full costs for this programme , they 've been paid a percentage less than the cost they actually incur . |
| 10 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |