Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 2 | So they said where is she then ? |
| 3 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 4 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 5 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 6 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 7 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 8 | Well they 'd already been to the pantomime at your school so you 'll have to wait till next year now . |
| 9 | Surely they had all been Blackers , or Tickles or Sprotts . |
| 10 | Maybe they had n't been secured anyway . |
| 11 | Maybe the family fled after the flood , or maybe they had all been drowned . |
| 12 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 13 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 14 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 15 | Then railways appeared and canal owners realised too late they had really been in the business of transportation . |
| 16 | Tsu Ma 's eyes had never left Li Shai Tung 's face , yet they had not been seeing him . |
| 17 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 18 | Previously they 'd always been er very staunch liberal , well know intellectuals , Sir James , and he represented the teachers . |