Example sentences of "[subord] they had be in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 2 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 3 | Each of the remaining 60,15 from each township , were asked whether they had been in contact with any of our list of ten agencies during the same prevalence study period . |
| 4 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 5 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 6 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 7 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |