Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 2 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 3 | Suddenly , above the shouting , shots and noise of battle , the neighing of horses , creaking wheels and ringing harness , came the sound they had all been dreading : the thin , sharp crackle of ice giving way under strain . |
| 4 | So saying , disdainfully Lexandro left the scriptory and returned to his small cell to recite in private one of the liturgies they had all been taught . |
| 5 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 6 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 7 | Try the Saloon , ’ advised Susan , and they forthwith entered the dingiest and most depressing room they had ever been inside . |
| 8 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 9 | The judge said it was a mircale that Inspector Paul Kirby was n't hit , and other officers told the court they 'd never been so terrified . |
| 10 | But that first day they had only been able to afford two bottles of Anjou rosè . |
| 11 | In many ways they had both been so much alike : the nervous , magpie-like intelligence , the pedagogical aspirations , the Yankee toughness combined with the shuddering sensitivity . |
| 12 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 13 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 14 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 15 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 16 | In this sense they had never been closer . |
| 17 | A small proportion of the ladies of the upper classes entered convents ; the remainder were married off , where possible , shortly after puberty ; in the very highest society they had commonly been betrothed , sometimes more than once , in babyhood . |
| 18 | Lots of fiery meetings and grand gestures , plenty of petitions to Washington and protests outside John Wayne movies , but in the end they had just been a bunch of dumb redskins battering their heads against the white man 's bricks . |
| 19 | On hearing the doorbell , the Commander 's reaction was affected by the events of the day and the matter they had just been so emotionally discussing : irrationally , he believed he was being visited by the police . |
| 20 | As a precaution they had both been admitted to hospital , but Sean Walsh had driven up and got Benny discharged . |
| 21 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |
| 22 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 23 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 24 | As it did the benches became the benches they had always been , and the litter bin no more than it simply was . |
| 25 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 26 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 27 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |