Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 2 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 3 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 4 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 5 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 6 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 7 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 8 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 9 | They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at . |