Example sentences of "they [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 32 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 33 | They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back . |
| 34 | He said they 'd been through the a the er interview process and they 've chosen who they want . |
| 35 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 36 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 37 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 38 | When they 'd been in The Lobster Pot , and afterwards , there had been a tremendous rapport between them . |
| 39 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 40 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 41 | They 'd been in the cafe for over thirty minutes now , with only the sound of a fruit machine and the loud chattering of a group of youngsters in their late teens for company . |
| 42 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 43 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 44 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 45 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 46 | They 'd been in er garage at bottom . |
| 47 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 48 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 49 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 50 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 51 | During the month they 've been without it , Barbara , who 's divorced and her children Joelle , eighteen and fourteen year-old Bobby are getting used to managing without a car . |
| 52 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 53 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 54 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 55 | And in its star system , the accolades go to the miners — they 've been through hell , fire , earth and water to become hardened into heroes . |
| 56 | They 've been through a lot . |
| 57 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 58 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 59 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 60 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |