Example sentences of "they [verb] been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 2 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 3 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 4 | When they 'd been in The Lobster Pot , and afterwards , there had been a tremendous rapport between them . |
| 5 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 6 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 7 | They 'd been in the cafe for over thirty minutes now , with only the sound of a fruit machine and the loud chattering of a group of youngsters in their late teens for company . |
| 8 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 'd been in er garage at bottom . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 've been in the night and dug it up ! ’ |
| 15 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 16 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 17 | ‘ Wigan will certainly know they 've been in a game . |
| 18 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 19 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 22 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 23 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They 've been in touch with the undertaker and when I left they were arguing about the funeral . ’ |
| 27 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 28 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 29 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |
| 30 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |