Example sentences of "they have be [adv] [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 2 | The judge was satisfied , as he made clear , that they had been properly served with the proceedings throughout and no proper explanation of their absence was vouchsafed by their solicitor , who appeared at the hearing on their behalf . |
| 3 | Relatives of two leading dissidents , Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming , were informed on Nov. 25 that they had been formally charged with sedition and spreading counter-revolutionary propaganda . |
| 4 | The first verbal report of Major Stirling on his recent operations shows that they have been imperfectly connected with other operations of Eighth Army . |
| 5 | Some children are difficult to motivate because ( as I mentioned before ) they have been habitually lavished with ‘ rewards ’ which have no link to their actions . |
| 6 | When benefits have been claimed they have been small compared with the resources employed . |
| 7 | Otherwise , you may find that , within microseconds , they have been indelibly marked with the territorial 's initials . |
| 8 | You can then make the best informed decision and the candidates will feel that they have been fairly treated with ample opportunity to state their case . |