Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Jan was not initially aware of it , this was not the first time they 'd been cast together . |
| 2 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 3 | Not that it was the first time they 'd been cut . |
| 4 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 5 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 6 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 7 | It was the first time they had been alone together since Abbotsfield . |
| 8 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 9 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 10 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 11 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 14 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 15 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 16 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 17 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 18 | In the public sector , both Queen 's University and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland remain our staunch and indispensable friends — as they have been since the Festival started , and since last year they have been joined by the Belfast City Council . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 21 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |