Example sentences of "[vb base] they have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 3 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 4 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 5 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 6 | The detailed plans were unveiled after a two year study , but local people say they 've been misled , and councillors say it would be an environmental disaster . |
| 7 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 8 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 9 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 10 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 11 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 12 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 13 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 14 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 15 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
| 16 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 17 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |
| 18 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 19 | RSPCA staff say they have been inundated with inquiries about the dogs at Sadberge kennels following an article in The Northern Echo . |
| 20 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 21 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 22 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 23 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 24 | Kurds in Turkey say they have been tortured and repressed in a bloody campaign by the government to crack down on separatist guerrillas fighting for an independent Kurdistan . |
| 25 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 26 | In all three Baltic republics , and in the southern republic of Moldavia ( which like them had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , separatism was the dominant election issue . |
| 27 | Erm I think it 's somewhere down near where the Road police station is now , and erm you know they had been hoping to get premises down there . |
| 28 | I know they 've been writing them . |
| 29 | ‘ I know they 've been questioning Mr Willard but he was the one who found her . ’ |
| 30 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |