Example sentences of "they [vb infin] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine . |
| 2 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 3 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 4 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 5 | Never could they have been visited by so many young girls . |
| 6 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |