Example sentences of "[noun] they have [been] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 13 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 14 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've been having discussions too , only in my case they 've been with the Hughes family who run Cheshire Restaurants . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | time they 've been round the floor and picked up again they 're not that good are they ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 28 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 29 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 30 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |