Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 2 | Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated . |
| 5 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 6 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 7 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 8 | They 'd both been riding clouds that morning , now this . |
| 9 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 10 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 11 | and they 'd both been there thirty years since they 've left school |
| 12 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 13 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 14 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 15 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 16 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 17 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 18 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 20 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 21 | On that holiday they er they 'd also been to Cairo as well as , and I mean some of the erm trips erm are they go to Luxor and you board a erm er the ship from Luxor to Aswan and you do n't get to Cairo and I think if you 're going to Egypt you really want to go to Cairo |
| 22 | Preston enquired , thinking they 'd probably been put down years ago , but the Flying Horses were alive and kicking and in at least as good a shape as she was . |
| 23 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 24 | they 'd already been |
| 25 | And I bloody well know that when we you know , first moved there and we 're in the caravan she had n't asked him and they 'd already been there eighteen months ! |
| 26 | I thought they 'd already been done |
| 27 | Well they 'd already been to the pantomime at your school so you 'll have to wait till next year now . |
| 28 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 29 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 30 | They lifted their heads from the stones and squinted , as if they 'd only been half aware of interlopers . |