Example sentences of "[noun] they have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
2 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
3 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
4 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
5 | You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ? |
6 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
9 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
10 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
11 | Er the the room , the smallest room they have is for twenty five to thirty people |
12 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
13 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
14 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
15 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
16 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
17 | During the month they 've been without it , Barbara , who 's divorced and her children Joelle , eighteen and fourteen year-old Bobby are getting used to managing without a car . |
18 | And the only privilege they have is of looking after us is n't it ? |
19 | I 've been having discussions too , only in my case they 've been with the Hughes family who run Cheshire Restaurants . |
20 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
21 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
22 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
23 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
24 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |
25 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
26 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
27 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
28 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
29 | time they 've been round the floor and picked up again they 're not that good are they ? |
30 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |