Example sentences of "they have [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 2 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 3 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 4 | One of our friends that we 'd met were there , they 'd been there a couple of weeks |
| 5 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 6 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 7 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 8 | They had been marginally the more dangerous side , but there was nothing then to suggest that Bradford might not complete their third win of the season over Leeds . |
| 9 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 10 | They had been perhaps a mile and a half off the river mouth when the hurricane hit . |
| 11 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 12 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |