Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 2 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 3 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 4 | They 've been through a lot . |
| 5 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |
| 6 | I spect they 've been to a party . |
| 7 | Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’ |
| 8 | Unless they 've been on a course of laughing pills , no one at the doctor 's will find these jokes in the least funny , and if you laugh at them , we recommend that you see a doctor as quickly as possible since your humour gland has obviously gone mental . |
| 9 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 10 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Wigan will certainly know they 've been in a game . |
| 12 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 13 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 14 | If they had been on an island , in a one-to-one situation , they would have fallen deeply in love , said Anspach . |
| 15 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 16 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 17 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 18 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 19 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 20 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 21 | Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) . |