Example sentences of "they have [prep] [det] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 2 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 3 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 4 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 5 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 6 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 7 | Many rural branch railway lines disappeared in the early 1960s , while the bus services that have replaced them have in many cases been abandoned or severely curtailed . |