Example sentences of "they [vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 3 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 4 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 5 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 6 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 7 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 8 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 9 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 10 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 11 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 13 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 14 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 15 | They 'd been entwined in an embrace , and Sandy 's hair had been spread like a fan ; by Aldridge 's account it had been a touching , harrowing sight . |
| 16 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 17 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 18 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 19 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 20 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 21 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 22 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 23 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 24 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 25 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 26 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 27 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 28 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 29 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 30 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |