Example sentences of "they 've been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 2 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 3 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 4 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 5 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 6 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |