Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 2 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 3 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 4 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 5 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 6 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 7 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 8 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 9 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 10 | Both the external images of apartness and the usefulness of the attitudes they represented were considered questionable . |
| 11 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 12 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 13 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 14 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 15 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 16 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 17 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 18 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 19 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 20 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 21 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 22 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 23 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 24 | We do n't want them thinking they 've been sold short or rumbled . ’ |
| 25 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 26 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 27 | Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright |
| 28 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 29 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 30 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |