Example sentences of "[coord] they had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 2 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 3 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 4 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 5 | The question they had to answer was quite simple , and they had been told by the seneschal that he had been told that it was an empirical question , not a purely theoretical one , though he had also said he found this difficult to believe , as even the mysterious powers and forces which moved the Wars themselves could not control such absolutes . |
| 6 | They had stayed to eat with the family of Chola 's former husband , and they had been feasted with raksi and rice and the meat of the sacrificial goat . |
| 7 | One had been in Cornwall , the other in Monmouthshire , and they had been loaded with margarine and tinned peaches respectively . |
| 8 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 9 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 10 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 11 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 12 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
| 13 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |