Example sentences of "they [verb] been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |
| 2 | But once , if they 've been washed in really hot water they tend to distort . |
| 3 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 4 | Well they 've been put in now . |
| 5 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 6 | Erm do you have cases where the where the girls or same faces keep popping up or do you do you feel that once they 've been pulled in they it puts them off ? |
| 7 | Chief Inspector Chips Salter was one of the officers they had been sent in to bring under control and Salter both guessed this ( although all such information was supposed to be highly confidential ) , and naturally — resented it . |
| 8 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 9 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 10 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 11 | The Kingston match had a similar pattern , except that England batted first because they had been put in by Lloyd . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 13 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 14 | ‘ But we are a bit concerned that they have been barricaded in by the Coal Board , so even if they want to , they can not get out . |
| 15 | Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I just quickly point out the main ones erm they have been amended in er , a later version of the document . |
| 17 | However , horses have a large range of emotions and , from a biological and evolutionary point of view , they have been built in to help horses survive as individuals and as a species . |