Example sentences of "they [verb] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 2 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 3 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 7 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 8 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 9 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 10 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 13 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 14 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 15 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 16 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 17 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 18 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 19 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 20 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 21 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 22 | They have been in some ways too successful . |