Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 2 | They show the Deee-Lite dictionary they have been compiling — nearly 400 words that includes slang from around the world , Esperanto and Deee-Lite 's own language . |
| 3 | All the buying they 've been doing must be starting to hurt . |
| 4 | As a result they had been driven out of the city by Richard 's agents and the cathedral was closed for twenty-one months . |
| 5 | I think , Chairman , that 's still subject to approval by the E A B , erm , which is at the end of the day , the important party that has to be satisfied , so , these are very successful negotiations , but we , we 're still awaiting erm , confirmation they 've been accepted . |
| 6 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 7 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 8 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
| 9 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 10 | All the seats had been taken , but once Myeloski had waved his warrant-card at the ticket-desk they had been given seats . |
| 11 | At the same time by increasing their expenditure programmes at a rate far greater than the growth in tax revenue they have been led into creating inflation . |
| 12 | No wonder they had been covered up . |
| 13 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 14 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 15 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 16 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |
| 17 | And with Teddy Sheringham , back at the City ground for the first time since his move to Spurs , and Durie performing like statues , Forest quickly found the self-belief they have been lacking . |
| 18 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 19 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 20 | After a lengthy campaign they 've been offered compensation for drop in value of their homes . |
| 21 | While at Croydon SSD , Ambache had to support his director in a battle with a while couple who wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering . |
| 22 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 23 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 24 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 25 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 26 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 27 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 28 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 29 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 30 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |