Example sentences of "they 've be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELT UP With Marie Pisa Snow 's collection of Western-style belts , hat bands , boot and guitar straps made from the finest matt black Rolls Royce car leather They 've been collected from all over the world and have been wrapped around the waists of stars such as Tom Jones , David Bowie and Tina Turner 's tour band . |
| 2 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 3 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 4 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 5 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 6 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 7 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 8 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 9 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 10 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 11 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 12 | But erm , that 's the idea , you see , that these kids , er well , you know , they may be delinquent , and do lots of nasty things , but it 's only the way they 've been treated by society . |
| 13 | In a sense responding to our questions , naturally , depending on how they 've been treated by their employer can we have your comments about the sort of legal framework you think the pension fund should be in and then Jeremy will take over . |
| 14 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 15 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 16 | Our two white heavies are too big for the straight-back chairs they 've been tied to . |
| 17 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 18 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 19 | They 've been replaced by the L and the M series . |
| 20 | By and large they 've been replaced by computers now . |
| 21 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 22 | they 've been cooked in the microwave for twelve minutes |
| 23 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 24 | And then , secondly t to just sort of mention the erm perhaps the more traditional ways of of working with people once they 've been sent to you by the courts . |
| 25 | We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions |
| 26 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 27 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 28 | They 've been inundated with them I expect |
| 29 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 30 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |