Example sentences of "they [vb base] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 2 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 3 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
| 4 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 5 | Yeah but they 've been open chillers as opposed to closed chillers before have n't they . |
| 6 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 7 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 8 | They 've been digging coal in small private mines in the area for centuries |
| 9 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 10 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |
| 11 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 12 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 13 | It is natural that parents , and mothers in particular , should feel sadness and a sense of bereavement , whether or not they have been full-time housewives and mothers . |
| 14 | They have been little fires , really , quickly doused , but they have been visible enough to consume the Interest of us club golfers , ever on the alert to condemn the game 's heroes for walking on feet of clay . |
| 15 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 16 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 17 | They have been busy recording their second demo recently . |
| 18 | Most of them have been short term . |