Example sentences of "they [vb past] [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 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 6 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 8 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they had been few in number . |