Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 2 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 3 | True each of them has been finely tuned . |
| 4 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 5 | The economic differences between a farmer and his workers are as wide today as they ever were ( probably wider when wealth as well as income is taken into account ) , but the social distance between them has been considerably reduced . |
| 6 | The validity of decisions taken by the partners may depend upon all of them having at least received notice of a partners ' meeting or upon one or more of them having been duly informed of action to be taken against them by their co-partners . |
| 7 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 8 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 9 | They were called Jem and Eric ; he recognized them ; they 'd been around since the filming started . |
| 10 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 11 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 12 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 13 | Taking pity on them because , despite her irritation with their constant preoccupation with her affairs , she knew it was n't meant maliciously , and they 'd been enormously kind after Ryan 's defection , she walked back to the counter . |
| 14 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 15 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 16 | I was only 23 and to hear players like Willie John , Gareth Edwards and Mervyn Davies saying that it was the best tour they 'd been on , then you knew it really was something special . |
| 17 | ‘ If they 'd been on , it would have spoiled the mystery , ’ Sarah explained . |
| 18 | Around the the the shop so , obviously they 'd been either been casting brass , at some time or other . |
| 19 | They 'd been up here before , on foot , months ago . |
| 20 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 21 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 22 | Well they came over here then and they 'd been up and they come back with Gillian and all that and they stayed . |
| 23 | Oh god , mind you there was a fire last night , and the fire could n't tell , just by looking at somebody , what they 'd been up too , you get . |
| 24 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 25 | They 'd been considerably bucked when I got a place at Merton , you see . |
| 26 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 27 | They 'd been better off just giving him an injection and put him to sleep |
| 28 | So that 's that 's really what happened , and it was n't until eighteen sixty , or eighteen fifty eight , fifty nine in time , that the Railway directors agreed to reopen this branch line , as they 'd been basically promised a lot more traffic . |
| 29 | I do n't think they 'd been actually taken from what I can gather . |
| 30 | They 'd been unbelievably kind to her , not that it was any of his business — he was n't one of the villagers , just a visitor . |