Example sentences of "[art] [noun] they have been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before .
2 Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety .
3 The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion .
4 But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics .
5 During the month they 've been without it , Barbara , who 's divorced and her children Joelle , eighteen and fourteen year-old Bobby are getting used to managing without a car .
6 Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period :
7 Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing .
8 Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done .
9 By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company .
10 For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft .
11 It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country .
12 ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before .
13 They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts .
14 It was a secret they 'd been in the house .
15 This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home .
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