Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 2 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 3 | So there was evidence that the beggars had been on the bank that morning . |
| 4 | In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right . |
| 5 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 6 | Note that the measurement period commenced after the plants had been in the new environment for a short while , not immediately on removal from the controlled conditions of the growth cupboard . |
| 7 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |
| 8 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 9 | However , the proportions cautioned were about the same ( at about 6 per cent . ) |
| 10 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 11 | Menzies squashed this with his news of how cool the Gillieses had been in the morning . |