Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 2 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 3 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 5 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 6 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 7 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 8 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 9 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 10 | But today they contacted their colleagues in Oxford to say they 'd been held up by blizzards . |
| 11 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 12 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 14 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 15 | They 'd been tipped off . |
| 16 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 17 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 18 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 19 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 20 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 21 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 22 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 23 | on a Saturday night after they 've been turned out , these young ones |
| 24 | If you 're crossing somebody out even if you er alter it and initial it , someone will know they 've been crossed out . |
| 25 | ‘ It also happens in public schools , where new arrivals are considered ordinary weaklings until they 've been pushed out to survive some sort of ordeal so they can re-enter the group with a new identity . ’ |
| 26 | He says that the council 's actions have made almost six hundred people redundant — they 've been ripped off . |
| 27 | Yeah and they 've been given out ? |
| 28 | But the deputies believe they 've been singled out as a obstacle to producing cheaper coal in Britain 's pits , in the run up to privatization . |
| 29 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 30 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |