Example sentences of "they 've [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've also been lucky : a box of curtains bought for £20 , for resale , yielded the magnificent tapestries now hanging in the study . |
| 2 | They 've also been recycling vinyl string pouches and have even decided to stop shining up their bronze strings by washing them in acid — still a common procedure for most string manufacturers . |
| 3 | They 've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda . |
| 4 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 5 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 6 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 7 | Measuring by the impressive stint of ‘ Winona ’ in the indie charts , luck and genuine love is with Drop Nineteens , so maybe by staying away they 've just been incredibly clever , holding back 'til the slaying 's stopped . |
| 8 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 9 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 11 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 12 | Erm We 've just the they 've just been altered actually |
| 13 | They 've just been |
| 14 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 15 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 16 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 17 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 18 | They 've even been known to have words in the piazza . ’ |
| 19 | This is the sort of thing my mob is supposed to be ironing out and they dare n't admit they 've even been involved — except by whispering to people like Sprague . |
| 20 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 21 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 22 | I think they 've either been priced wrong or somebody had |
| 23 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 24 | He says they 've since been dismantled . |
| 25 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 26 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 27 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 28 | They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’ |
| 29 | They 've both been brought up in Ireland and the Bishop has taken them into his household . ’ |
| 30 | That 's right Jane , I 'll be off to Culham Road shortly to cover the match between Abingdon Town and Brackley , Bracknell ; they 're playing in the Vauxhall League Division two south and some team news for Town — does n't read very well , I 'm afraid , mid fielders Kevin Connelly and Keith Appleton , they 've both been ruled out . |