Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 2 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 3 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 4 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 5 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 6 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 7 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 8 | The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong . |
| 9 | Of this great brooding complex mineral creature they had been dropped in the midst of — safely , yes , into a pocket of calm and inattention , locally barren of signs of life … though barren for how long ? |
| 10 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 11 | Patients presenting with clinical evidence of gastrointestinal haemorrhage were endoscoped urgently , the source of bleeding identified , and appropriate treatment instituted including endoscopic sclerotherapy irrespective of which arm of the trial they had been randomised to . |
| 12 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 13 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 14 | Shamlou guessed that was the reason they had been chosen as ‘ sleepers ’ . |
| 15 | Christie slashed her own thighs with the knife and told police they had been attacked by a mystery man . |
| 16 | But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process . |
| 17 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 18 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 19 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 20 | At Wharram Percy they had been rebuilt of perishable materials — wood , wattle , turf — in almost every generation , only later having substantial foundations . |