Example sentences of "[adj] of they [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was green at my job and some of them had been around twenty-five to thirty years doing this sort of work . |
| 2 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 3 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 4 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 5 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 6 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 7 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 8 | Eleven of them had been treated previously with size 10 French plastic stents for a mean duration of 15 ( 2–36 ) months . |
| 9 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 10 | Each of them had been badly affected by Woil 's failed escape in the summer and now their sense of captivity was made even worse by the feeling of change , renewal and purpose in the air . |
| 11 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 12 | So far neither of them had been defeated . |
| 13 | When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 14 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |
| 15 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 16 | Three of them had been detained by UNIFIL , but the other three had seized the 14 hostages . |
| 17 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 18 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 19 | The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface . |
| 20 | All of them had been in there , seeing to their charges . |
| 21 | Before they became redundant some three years earlier , all of them had been economically active and in full-time employment . |
| 22 | Whatever sexual imaginings he 'd shaped in the darkness — Judith 's face , Judith 's breasts , belly , sex — all of them had been an illusion . |
| 23 | The prior of the Austin canons of Launde , in Leicestershire , followed these into captivity , and shortly all of them had been put to death for treason . |
| 24 | Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif ( whose relatives owned two of the four co-operatives implicated — see p. 38438 ) and Interior Minister Choudhry Shujat Hussain had admitted to receiving loans but said that all of them had been repaid . |
| 25 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 26 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 27 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 28 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 29 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 30 | So many of them had been trained by her and trusted her friendship and judgements . |