Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 2 | The Americans were 11 under par when it finished they had also been six under in the Foursomes when they beat Gordon Brand and Sam Torrance . |
| 3 | But Mr Davidson felt they had not been unfair in their treatment of him . |
| 4 | He thought they had unquestionably been right to believe Nuadu and Tealtaoich and the others . |
| 5 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 6 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |