Example sentences of "they have been [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 2 | they 'd been ca they 'd been called so many times you know when he was low . |
| 3 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 4 | Though Jan was not initially aware of it , this was not the first time they 'd been cast together . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 6 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 7 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 8 | No matter what she did to distract herself , his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they 'd been branded there . |
| 9 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 10 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 11 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 12 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 13 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 14 | They 'd been married just eight weeks when the accident happened . |
| 15 | They 'd been married about four years now , and while their apartment was n't exactly a centre of domesticity , it was a Mecca for all kinds of zany characters who had something interesting to offer . |
| 16 | But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards . |
| 17 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 18 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 19 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 21 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 22 | They 'd been tipped off . |
| 23 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 24 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 25 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 26 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 27 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 28 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 29 | They 've been ridden hard . |
| 30 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |