Example sentences of "they been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 2 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 3 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 4 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 5 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 6 | How long have they been on you ? |
| 7 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 8 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 9 | How long have they been in business ? |
| 10 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 11 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 12 | These arrangements would not have differed had they been in the Fens , or watching Scandinavia 's hot springs : Johnson went to inspect the landscape he described : Boswell took his landscape , the lumpy Dr Johnson , with him . |
| 13 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 14 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 15 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 16 | Have they been in the fridge ? |
| 17 | Well they been in there since two o'clock . |
| 18 | Have they been in there ? |
| 19 | How long have they been in here for Paul ? |
| 20 | How long does you happen to have in his family , how long have they been in the collection ? |