Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 2 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 3 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 4 | They 'd all been made by small independent producers from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire and Devon . |
| 5 | They 've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda . |
| 6 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 7 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 8 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 9 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 10 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 11 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 12 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 13 | Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones . |
| 14 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 15 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 16 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 17 | Although they look sweet and innocent enough , they 've actually been registered under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act . |
| 18 | They 've all been released without charged . |
| 19 | They had also been robbed around the Chinchero ‘ bus stop ’ . |
| 20 | On investigation , it was apparent that the claimant had been unaware of the regulations in this respect , and they had also been overlooked by the supervisor and administrative assistant who were involved in processing the claim . |
| 21 | They had just been moved into a new milking shed and they were in completely strange surroundings . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 23 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 24 | They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them . |
| 25 | Pupils themselves disliked the way that they had previously been divided from one another ; and although there had been considerable advances made in the early 1980s in running joint CSE/GCE courses and examinations , these were patchy and voluntary , and unlikely to have been acceptable to the more academic of those who had an interest in the outcome of the examinations , especially the universities . |
| 26 | Several weeks before reunification , Bundeswehr units started taking over former NVA bases and re-training NVA soldiers , before quietly slipping into West Berlin , from where they had previously been banned by the 1969 Four Power agreement . |
| 27 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 28 | They had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 30 | They had evidently been sent by Judith : she had been in control of the treasure they brought with them , and , interestingly , of Charles 's regalia . |