Example sentences of "they have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 2 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 3 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 4 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 5 | Could they have been any worse , do you think ? ’ |
| 6 | And they 've been such good parents to me . ’ |
| 7 | they 've had they 've been out two days on bikes , borrowed John 's children 's bikes and bikes and they 've been all round |
| 8 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 9 | I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots . |
| 10 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 13 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 14 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 15 | But they had been few in number . |
| 16 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 17 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 18 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 19 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 20 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 21 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 22 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 23 | I 've played a lot of these poker games in my time as a computer own , and none of them have been any cop ( especially bad was Maria Whittaker 's Christmas Box ) . |