Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 2 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 3 | The chap on the Britannia stage was referring , almost certainly , to a recent threat by the IRA in Derry to kill two people who they allege to have been behind a ‘ major drugs ring ’ in the city . |
| 4 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , they claim to have been in the Card Room all afternoon talking about the romantic poets . ’ |