Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they 've [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 2 | ‘ Only because they 've been bathed . ’ |
| 3 | Just jot the other people 's names down and then obviously when they 've been they 've said their piece just strike their name through so you do n't go and . |
| 4 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 5 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 6 | So stay away until they 've been drilled , or Aberconwy District Council will stop the fun for everyone . |
| 7 | Well I tell you why I have n't been buying currants lately cos they 've been so blooming expensive ! |
| 8 | Already because they 've been approved by the board . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 10 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 11 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 12 | Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that . |
| 13 | Probably cos they 've been done that much . |
| 14 | Mm I say probably cos they 've been done . |
| 15 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 16 | We shall of course consider the Library 's proposals carefully when they 've been finalised . |
| 17 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 18 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 19 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 20 | Erm , Joan and Sheila very kindly volunteered to wash all the curtains in here and they 've been done . |
| 21 | These are good pillows here but they 've been mapped as intrusives . ’ |
| 22 | They go on a list and they can not get work simply because they 've been activists . |
| 23 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 24 | Even when they 've been pureed , I suppose . |
| 25 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 26 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 27 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 28 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 29 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |