Example sentences of "[vb past] they had [adv] [be] " 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 | When the Community seemed to be their only option , the Greeks thought they had better be thoroughly Community-minded . |
| 3 | He thought they had unquestionably been right to believe Nuadu and Tealtaoich and the others . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A workman who put the goal posts up said they had only been temporarily secured . |
| 7 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 8 | They were frequently on paper of a quality — and had typesetting of an eccentricity — that suggested they had actually been printed in Romania itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |