Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 2 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 4 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 5 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 6 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 7 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 8 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 9 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 10 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 11 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |