Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 2 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 3 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 4 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 5 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 6 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 7 | When they recovered , there was no destruction of the heart , lungs and they could go back and work , a young person , as if they 'd never been ill . |
| 8 | They 've also been lucky : a box of curtains bought for £20 , for resale , yielded the magnificent tapestries now hanging in the study . |
| 9 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 10 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 11 | Erm a fully mobile workable skeleton , and th it 's a deprived area of Nottingham and they 've apparently been able to teach them more with this skeleton over this past six months than than any other kids in the school . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've only been married 15 days . |
| 13 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |
| 14 | ‘ Edward is Stephen 's half-brother ; they 've never been close . |
| 15 | and they 've never been late to their jobs |
| 16 | ‘ Each one blossoms and they return home to be far more independent and mature in their own little way , because they have done and seen things in a way they 've never been able to do before . |
| 17 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
| 18 | They 've never been hard on me on times to come in and that , but he 's great now . |
| 19 | Get a divorce they , they 've never been happy at all since they 've been married have they ? |
| 20 | I 've trusted my instincts in the past and they 've usually been right . |
| 21 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 22 | They 've always been other years so I presume that |
| 23 | A monk run guest house may seem strange to an outsider , but the brothers say that traditonally , they 've always been hospitable . |
| 24 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 25 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 26 | Until now , they 've always been exempt , but booksellers and newspaper owners say knowledge should NOT be taxed . |
| 27 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 28 | Many have multiple thin trunks growing up from the ground — they 've obviously been coppiced in the past . |
| 29 | Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |