Example sentences of "this [noun sg] they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 2 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 3 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 4 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 5 | Last week dentists were celebrating being awarded a pay rise , but this week they 've been told they could face a £6,000 pay cut instead . |
| 6 | Last week dentists were celebrating being awarded a pay rise , but this week they 've been told they could face a £6,000 pay cut instead . |
| 7 | But this week they 've been confronted by a whole host of vegetarian dishes . |
| 8 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 9 | Carrie thought of bombs falling , of the war going on all this year they 'd been safe in the valley ; going on over their heads like grown-up conversation when she 'd been too small to listen . |
| 10 | God subsequently led the Burnetts to accept the challenge of establishing a new work in Albania ( in conjunction with the European Baptist Federation ) and since summer of this year they have been resident in Tiran together with their two young sons . |
| 11 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 12 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |