Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 2 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 3 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 4 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 5 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 6 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
| 7 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 8 | Yeah but they 've been open chillers as opposed to closed chillers before have n't they . |
| 9 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 10 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 11 | They 've been digging coal in small private mines in the area for centuries |
| 12 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 13 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |
| 14 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 15 | Good times , yes , they had been good times … |
| 16 | They had been good friends , had helped each other over the years . |
| 17 | And they had been good years . |
| 18 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 19 | They had been suffering trading reverses and were anxious to increase their status . |
| 20 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 21 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 22 | He had just glanced at his wristwatch , to discover that Cunningham 's arrival still lay approximately two replays of Little Brown Jug in the future , when a woman slid onto the next bar-stool to his and said : ‘ Hello , Harry , ’ in a tone of husky confidence which suggested they had been lifelong friends . |
| 23 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 24 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 25 | They had been communicating disapproval , anger , behind that closed door . |
| 26 | In the beginning they had been manly contests of strength and skill , strictly conducted to emphasize the virtues of morality , honour and courtesy . |
| 27 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 28 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 29 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 30 | What if they had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded . |