Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 2 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 3 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 4 | Of course , the sad truth behind the break-up of many young couples ' marriages was just that — they 'd been too young . |
| 5 | They 'd been too lifelike , while too still . |
| 6 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 7 | They 'd no idea why they 'd been so sick . |
| 8 | At Feile , they 'd been very impressive despite the torrential rain which marred their show . |
| 9 | Erm we both feel you 've had a chance in detail and they 'd been quite blank in design . |
| 10 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 11 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 12 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 13 | The the roads would they have been quite good or |
| 14 | Normally they 've been pretty good . |
| 15 | Deane 's got ta score if he plays and Strach and Macca must put up — they 've been pretty ineffective of late . |
| 16 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 17 | They 've been bloody inscrutable alright . |
| 18 | Now erm they 've been quite good to us . |
| 19 | some days they 've been about four ah ? |
| 20 | Well yeah but you see that the trouble is they 've been now two if not three pilot phases |
| 21 | and of course , they 've been absolutely abnormal . |
| 22 | And on the whole , I 've been fairly lucky with them , so my views are n't formed because they 've been absolutely horrible to me . |
| 23 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 24 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 25 | I 've always found the men that I 've worked with either it has made no difference that I was a woman so far as I was aware , or else they 've been very helpful . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've been very good to me , ’ he said curtly . |
| 27 | I 've met few recently , but they 've been very good . |
| 28 | Oh they 've been very good , oh yeah . |
| 29 | oh yes you 've got ta actually I think they 've been very good |
| 30 | I 've a feeling that , that probably they are all together and that they are safe because I think the , the , the , the Soviets are probably trying to , to damp down the issue now by keeping quiet on it , because I think they 've been very rattled . |