Example sentences of "of they had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them had already gone home — were slumped in shock on the floor . |
| 2 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 3 | And , most importantly , none of them had ever sailed before , let alone on a big cat . |
| 4 | They were utterly delicious , quite unlike anything either of them had ever tasted before , light , crisp and lemony , with a fine dusting of sugar . |
| 5 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |