Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was no longer the girl she had been when they had first come to live at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 2 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |
| 3 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 4 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 5 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 6 | Sometimes he was angry as he 'd been when they had fought . |
| 7 | Presumably , when her husband told her that he and his boss practised harmless sex , what he meant is that they do n't practise full gay sex . |
| 8 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 9 | It was in darkness , just as it had been when they had been there earlier that evening . |
| 10 | It was as pained and as lost-even now , as he came to kill her — as it had been when they 'd faced each other in the street . |
| 11 | Half past three it had been when they 'd arrived at Mr Grady 's , the last name on the list , his fish and chips congealed and inedible . |
| 12 | The Wolfwood was as dark and as secretive as it had been when they journeyed through to the Forest Court with Nuadu , but here and there , deep within the Trees , Floy caught the darting movement of green and gold ; the rustling of silver-tipped leaves that looked , for a moment , like the trailing hair of a creature almost Human … |
| 13 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |