Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 2 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 4 | The last time they flew together was seven days previously . |
| 5 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 7 | They had both been ardent followers of such causes as Shelter , Freedom from Hunger and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , the popular issues of the day for caring people with deep moral convictions . |
| 8 | Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes ? |
| 9 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 10 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 11 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 12 | They had always been careful hands , and she sensed an extra reverence in them now . |
| 13 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |