Example sentences of "they [vb past] be separated [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 3 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 4 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 5 | Instead they had been separated from their ‘ bosses ’ and relegated to word-processing pools to type for ‘ dictators ’ . |
| 6 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |