Example sentences of "['s] family [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 2 | I repeated the details of how so many of Green 's family had been murdered at Auschwitz . |
| 3 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 4 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |
| 5 | But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances . |
| 6 | Another source of unwelcome attention came from agency reports of a rumour that the Iraqi president 's family had been packed off to Algeria or Mauritania for the duration of the war . |
| 7 | Mrs. Fielding 's family had been hoping to have her moved to shelterd housing since her husband died . |
| 8 | Police also said that the 12-year-old 's family had been rehoused at an undisclosed address after disturbances by angry crowds outside their home at Kirkdale in Liverpool . |