Example sentences of "they have be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then occurred to him that there was no contemporary pictorial record of the Broads , the last person to seriously photograph them having been P.H. Emerson , in the 1890s . |
| 2 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 3 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 4 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 5 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 6 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 7 | They had been Ping Tiao . |
| 8 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 9 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |
| 10 | One of them had been Keith Sutton , taking a break from editing the anti-Murdoch strike paper , the Wapping Post , in the office below . |