Example sentences of "they [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 2 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 3 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 4 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 5 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 6 | Have they been getting any ? |
| 7 | Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that . |
| 8 | That said , the Scottish backs have also been looking extremely sharp all year , and it would have been a criminal offence had they been left starved of passes . |
| 9 | Rarely had they been left alone together for any length of time , but one thing now seemed certain . |
| 10 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 11 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 12 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 13 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 14 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |