Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 2 | But of course they had been drunk too , worse , most of them far worse than herself — perhaps they had forgotten she was ever with them . |
| 3 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 4 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 5 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 6 | It is surprising how quickly the survivors returned to the civilized life they had been living before . |
| 7 | in the hockey world the City of Oxford are on the march … in the semi-final of the association cup they 've been drawn away to Oxton of Cheshire |
| 8 | Ever since TALK TALK turned their back on fame and fortune they 've been drifting ever further into their dark , ethereal musical underworld . |
| 9 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 10 | Lancashire 's hope is that slow left-armer Alex Barnett , who has joined them from Middlesex , will develop over the next few seasons into the matchwinning spinner they have been seeking ever since Jack Simmons retired . |
| 11 | Though Jan was not initially aware of it , this was not the first time they 'd been cast together . |
| 12 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |