Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] been [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 2 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 3 | They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night ! |
| 4 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 5 | They had ever been larger than common in their aspirations , and the shadow they cast was correspondingly deep . |
| 6 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |