Example sentences of "then they [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they 've been taught how to feed them and eventually how to release them . |
| 2 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 3 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 4 | Yes and then they 've were forked up in the carts , what the bogeys are nowadays , and then they would have made stacks and stack yet . |
| 5 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 6 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 7 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 8 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 9 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 10 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 11 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 12 | In 1983 they even considered leaving the EMS ; since then they have been obliged to keep their interest rates 2% or 3% higher than in Germany , in pursuit of a strong franc . |
| 13 | Lord Joseph ( as Secretary of State , Sir Keith ) saw to it that there should be more parents on the governing bodies of schools ; and since then they have been more and more frequently invoked . |
| 14 | If in a particular year Dr A publishes four papers , which are cited an average of 15 times by other authors during the following five years , then they have been useful . |
| 15 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 16 | But if political calculations did enter the minds of the Conservatives ( Alexander 1982b:46 ) then they have been disappointed . |
| 17 | Since then they have been both warmer and colder , with oscillations of the order of 1–2°C about annual mean temperatures . |
| 18 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |