Example sentences of "[conj] they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 2 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 3 | The curtains were wet where they had been sucked into the fringe of the deluge . |
| 4 | Foreign scholars as well as foreign diplomats found to their surprise that where they had been led to expect barbarity , they found civilization and love of learning ; for Giovanni Ferreri , who settled in the abbey of Kinloss , close to the university of Aberdeen , Girolamo Aleandro , teacher of Greek and Hebrew at Paris , and Girolamo Cardano , physician of Milan , Scottish scholars were welcome members of the academic community of Europe . |
| 5 | Then from the back of the platform , where they had been seated , there stepped forward some twenty or perhaps thirty men , to whom were given silver plates containing little cubes of bread , and with these they moved down among the congregation … |
| 6 | He listed all the sculptures made and where they had been found . |
| 7 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 8 | Beyond it lay , if she had chosen to conjure them up , unwashed coffee cups , trousers lying where they had been stepped out of , heaped dusty papers ring-stained with wine-glasses , a carpet full of dust and ashes , the smell of socks and other smells . |
| 9 | Evidence that the heat of the blast was the cause of death was abundant — there were many poignant scenes of entire families dead in rooms where glass bottles , jugs , bowls and cutlery stood perfectly undamaged on tables where they had been set out . |
| 10 | The five players returned to the hotel 's night-bar , where they had been asked to calm down earlier in the night . |
| 11 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 12 | Where they had been was raw earth , smothered with the rubbish and dust of bombardment , and pitted with curious mounds and recesses which Nicholas recognised only slowly as rank upon rank of recent , random , haphazard graves . |
| 13 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 14 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 15 | News of the Sheikhs , where they were going and where they had been . |
| 16 | My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall . |
| 17 | When she eventually returned , utterly distraught , our fears were confirmed : she had discovered the men 's bodies lying where they had been shot . |
| 18 | Four derelict PBYs were located at Orange County Airport in Southern California where they had been abandoned after a Navy surplus sale . |
| 19 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 20 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 21 | They lived on East Broadway where they had been able to afford property . |
| 22 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 23 | In return , Miranda did not mention the occasional missing pair of stockings , headband , hairslide , and , on one occasion , she was almost sure , British Home Stores knickers she 'd had since school , where they had been modestly itemised as ‘ linings ’ in the list of uniform requirements and had her school number scrawled on the waistband by Astrid with a linen marker of indelible ink ( the other girls had Cash 's name tapes in cursive script or small capitals ) . |
| 24 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 25 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 26 | He had cut off the girl 's head and put it next to her father 's on the garden path , where they had been found by a neighbour . |
| 27 | His back was lacerated , the tips of his ears bloody where they had been cropped whilst a fool 's cap , fastened to his head , listed his lies and deceptions . |
| 28 | On Oct. 15 the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills said in Washington that the USA had rejected EC proposals for " re-balancing " , which sought tariff increases on items such as oil seeds to offset cuts elsewhere , adding that the USA could " not tolerate " such an idea , which effectively allowed the re-imposition of tariffs , even where they had been negotiated away . |
| 29 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 30 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |