Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 2 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 3 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 4 | In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight . |
| 5 | ‘ The Maktowms have been big spenders at Newmarket , but they have never been made really welcome there , ’ an insider told me . |
| 6 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 7 | Meichenbaum first developed these techniques in 1974 but they have recently been extended and detailed by Meichenbaum and Cameron ( 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics . |
| 9 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 10 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |
| 11 | Instead , the number of synonyms has been calculated , but they have then been ignored by the mathematics , and so have not interfered with the ‘ storage ’ of other records . |