Example sentences of "they have [be] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 3 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 4 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 5 | It need n't be so : first thoughts are often best , cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they 've been loured at by seconds . |
| 6 | Each time they 've been reprieved at the last moment . |
| 7 | They 've been involved at every stage through carpentry , electrical and painting work through to its present state |
| 8 | they 've been got at |
| 9 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 10 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 11 | But when they were late in arriving , Mr Stokes rang the agent and was told that they had been impounded at Dover for five weeks while checks were made for drugs . |
| 12 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 13 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |
| 14 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 15 | have denied overreacting in taking seven children into care after they had been left at home alone . |
| 16 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 17 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 18 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
| 19 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 20 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 21 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 22 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 23 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 24 | Their relationships with each other and with later hominoids is still uncertain , but as they represent different evolutionary trends I am going to distinguish them taxonomically at the level of tribe , where they have been distinguished at generic level before . |
| 25 | They have been relocated at the Iwaba wildlife estate , where they will be protected from poachers , and where they are needed to reduce the density of the bush , which is outgrowing the ability of the animals to eat it . |
| 26 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 27 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , since the Coventry result this week , they have been backed at short odds to win further hundreds of thousands of pounds . ’ |
| 29 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |