Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1834 reforming zealots destroyed a vast collection of Exchequer tallies in the furnaces of the House of Lords , and through the centuries they have been thoughtlessly thrown out and destroyed in the same way that , after a period , we ourselves dump old bills and receipts . |
| 2 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 3 | The water-proofed red notices warn drivers they have been reported and to get taxed at once or face a possible £1,000 fine . |
| 4 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 5 | By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office . |
| 6 | But I 'd be grateful for anything — even some idea of the scale of the funds they 've been filching . |
| 7 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 8 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 9 | The point also is that some , more than others , remember the sins they have been forgiven and are therefore more consciously grateful . |
| 10 | We have organised for every eventuality and the players feel comfortable with the roles they have been given . ’ |
| 11 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 12 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
| 13 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
| 14 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 15 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 16 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
| 17 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 21 | In general these movements have operated only at grass-roots level , but in some areas they have been joining up to form networks of organisations of the urban poor . |
| 22 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 23 | My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water . |
| 24 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 25 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 26 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 27 | We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget . |
| 28 | Sartori had been indulgent for the weeks they 'd been together . |
| 29 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 30 | They had lived wild in the forests below for nearly three weeks , waiting for their chance ; and three sorry weeks they had been , saturated with spiteful April rains that had discouraged even Isambard from his usual activities . |