Example sentences of "they have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 62 | They 'd been taking their very last walk of a well earned holiday . |
| 63 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 64 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 65 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 66 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 67 | Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it . |
| 68 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 69 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 70 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 71 | In the words of the prosecutor , they 'd been conned . |
| 72 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 73 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 74 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 75 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 76 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 77 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 78 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 79 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 80 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 81 | Even the knowledge that they 'd been invited to submit ideas would be like a shot of adrenalin . |
| 82 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 83 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 84 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 85 | The far-off cries of the lone bird they 'd been hearing since sunset had recently seemed to double in intensity , and Loc realized that Paul Devraux had been echoing its call by blowing on blades of jungle grass between his thumbs . |
| 86 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 87 | They 'd been seen boarding the street-car with Joey still asking — ‘ Where 's Noreen ? ’ |
| 88 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 89 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 90 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |