Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the past six months while they 've been in prison doctors have been battling to save thir victim 's eyes . |
| 32 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 33 | And he away to Dale in and then the the s took it on and they 've been in it since . |
| 34 | They 've been in touch and they said everything 's going through , it 's |
| 35 | Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over |
| 36 | Er , you , they come , they 've been in here before with |
| 37 | They 've been in here and they still want you to do the disco ! |
| 38 | and er I bloody , I said , I said in the end I 've , what we ought to do is lop some part of their anatomy off , like a little digit or something then we can prove they 've been in |
| 39 | I expect they 've been in the gallery have n't you ? |
| 40 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 41 | Yeah , yeah , cos they 've been in the , yeah . |
| 42 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 43 | But you see they 're spending a lot of the time you know , on developing ways of repairing roads after they 've been in them . |
| 44 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 45 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 46 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 47 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 48 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 49 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 50 | Famines had been a cyclical phenomenon in the Volga region , as they had been in Asia , for centuries . |
| 51 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 52 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 53 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 54 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 55 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 56 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 57 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 58 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 59 | He thought that they would be happier under the cockpit awning than they had been in the water . |
| 60 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |