Example sentences of "they [verb] been [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 2 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 3 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 4 | If they had been on the same side of the bed , he would have struck her . |
| 5 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 6 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 7 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |