Example sentences of "they 've been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 2 | Oh no , so they 've been Ireland have they ? |
| 3 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 4 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 5 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 6 | Even when they 've been pureed , I suppose . |
| 7 | I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on |
| 8 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 9 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 10 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 11 | There are punching sound effects and speech ( via the internal speaker or sound card ) but the boxers react like a stuffed dummy when they 've been punch . |
| 12 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 13 | The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings . |
| 14 | They go on a list and they can not get work simply because they 've been activists . |