Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 2 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 3 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 4 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 5 | When they recovered , there was no destruction of the heart , lungs and they could go back and work , a young person , as if they 'd never been ill . |
| 6 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 7 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 8 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 9 | They had n't been able to light a fire . |
| 10 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 11 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 12 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 13 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |
| 14 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 15 | Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope . |
| 16 | He had had her arrested for theft , but , although the jade was gone , they had n't been able to prove she had taken it . |
| 17 | They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there . |
| 18 | They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there . |
| 19 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 20 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 23 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 24 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 25 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 26 | The local gentry and others were presented for taking the deer , which they had probably been accustomed to do for generations with little interference . |
| 27 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 28 | They had both been ardent followers of such causes as Shelter , Freedom from Hunger and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , the popular issues of the day for caring people with deep moral convictions . |
| 29 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
| 30 | They had already been alone in the house for 24 hours . |