Example sentences of "they [verb] it have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 2 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 3 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 4 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 5 | They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles . |
| 6 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |