Example sentences of "they [verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 2 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 3 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 4 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 5 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 6 | I suppose ( now ) they 'd been to bed together . |
| 7 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 8 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 9 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 10 | And in its star system , the accolades go to the miners — they 've been through hell , fire , earth and water to become hardened into heroes . |
| 11 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 12 | I do n't know if they 've been on holiday with them |
| 13 | I mean they 've been on strike now for six months . |
| 14 | They 've been on loo while they 've been and done them . |
| 15 | But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves . |
| 16 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 17 | They 've been under scrutiny since they met — a considerable strain for any relationship , and doubly so for one as close as theirs . |
| 18 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 19 | You will be tested for rubella immunity and until you know you are definitely immune , you should avoid seeing anyone who thinks they 've been in contact with the disease . |
| 20 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |
| 21 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 22 | They 've been in touch with the undertaker and when I left they were arguing about the funeral . ’ |
| 23 | They 've been in touch and they said everything 's going through , it 's |
| 24 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 25 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 26 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 27 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 28 | In the past six months while they 've been in prison doctors have been battling to save thir victim 's eyes . |
| 29 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 30 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |