Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] they 've be " in BNC.

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1 His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever .
2 Most graduates move away from the town where they 've been studying when they start work , so may be looking to transfer their bank account to a more convenient branch .
3 Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used .
4 He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money .
5 it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the
6 It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks .
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