Example sentences of "they have been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 2 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 3 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 5 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 6 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 7 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 8 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 9 | It is no coincidence either that members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe appear in UK adverts for Carhartt : they 've been wearing the gear for ages . |
| 10 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 11 | I do n't think they 've been to take the photographs yet |
| 12 | Avon and Somerset Police told us they 've been monitoring the situation closely , but so far they 've been unable to press criminal charges . |
| 13 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 14 | Rumour has it they 've been perfecting the belly crawl and crawling down rabbit holes to hide . |
| 15 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 16 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 17 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 18 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 19 | They 've been paying the mortgage interest since July . |
| 20 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 21 | They 've been testing the top-of-the-range model , the one with the voice activated selector , on site … |
| 22 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 23 | They 've been playing The Marquee every week . |
| 24 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 25 | They 've been following the progress of around 150 bats . |
| 26 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 27 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 28 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 29 | Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery . |
| 30 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |