Example sentences of "they 've [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |
| 3 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 4 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 5 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 6 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 7 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 8 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 9 | They 've been given 44 . |
| 10 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 11 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 12 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 13 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 14 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 16 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 17 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 18 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 19 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 20 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 21 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 22 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 25 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 26 | We do n't want them thinking they 've been sold short or rumbled . ’ |
| 27 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 28 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 29 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 30 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |