Example sentences of "[det] [prep] they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was green at my job and some of them had been around twenty-five to thirty years doing this sort of work . |
| 2 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 3 | Each of them had been badly affected by Woil 's failed escape in the summer and now their sense of captivity was made even worse by the feeling of change , renewal and purpose in the air . |
| 4 | True each of them has been finely tuned . |
| 5 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |
| 6 | Equally , there are too many for them to have been purely phonetic or syllabic . |
| 7 | Before they became redundant some three years earlier , all of them had been economically active and in full-time employment . |
| 8 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 9 | The weakness of employer partnerships has always lain with smaller firms , though many of them have been quite strong in the gift relationship offering small goodies in times of prosperity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 12 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |
| 13 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 14 | In this the government has had a measure of success in that twenty-three separate sales have gone ahead , and most of them have been greatly over-subscribed . |
| 15 | Most of them have been accidentally obtained from seeds so they must not be esteemed as different species , therefore I shall only insert their common names by which they are known in gardens , that those who are inclined to collect all the varieties may be at no loss for their titles . |