Example sentences of "[vb past] they had [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans were 11 under par when it finished they had also been six under in the Foursomes when they beat Gordon Brand and Sam Torrance . |
| 2 | He thought they had unquestionably been right to believe Nuadu and Tealtaoich and the others . |
| 3 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Siddle said they had never been given any written instructions by Redpath Offshore about safety , but as a skilled workman he knew about having to support loads . |
| 5 | A workman who put the goal posts up said they had only been temporarily secured . |
| 6 | They were frequently on paper of a quality — and had typesetting of an eccentricity — that suggested they had actually been printed in Romania itself . |
| 7 | Frank Sinatra , pacing the sound stage in his elevator shoes , explained they had all been up late the night before and that their performance might leave something to be desired . |