Example sentences of "[conj] they 've [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 2 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 3 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
| 4 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 5 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 6 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 7 | ‘ Or they 've been a bully before , and they just go downhill . |
| 8 | Either that or they 've been proved well |
| 9 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
| 10 | Erm I do n't represent Mr and Mrs as you know , although they 've been in to give us a witness statement . |
| 11 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 12 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 13 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 14 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 15 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 16 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 17 | What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable . |
| 18 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |
| 19 | They suspect — wrongly — that they 've been double-crossed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 21 | The victims of Stealers forget that they 've been infected . |
| 22 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 23 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 24 | Well in the sense that they 've been involved in it . |
| 25 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |
| 26 | Erm but er we 've had one or two people come to us , and report that they 've been mugged , there again we get straight on the phone to the police . |
| 27 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 28 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 29 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 30 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |