Example sentences of "they [vb past] been [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he used to go shooting there and and they went in there and they should n't of done because Michael told them I 'd taken meadows back and he sa , he said when Tony told them , they , they 'd been there shooting he said well they 're , they 're out of bounds ! |
| 2 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 3 | From what Blackberry had told them , they had been almost expecting to find Fiver foretelling doom in a poetic torrent . |
| 4 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 5 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 6 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |