Example sentences of "they had been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just assumed they were trying to cut back as they had been a bit too lavish . |
| 2 | They had been a unit , had shared jokes , exchanged small gifts , written to each other when unable to meet for a week or two ; the assumption was always that this would continue , and expand . |
| 3 | They had been a way of ‘ coasting ’ slightly , when I 'd run out of steam . |
| 4 | It was only at this late stage that she began to think about them ; they had been a means to an end , Frederica Potter 's removal from Blesford and Yorkshire . |
| 5 | They had been a match , an Indian and a cowboy . |
| 6 | Mr Jones said the NSA was fortunate in having Mr John Gittins and his family as hosts because they had been a pioneer of land improvement , while recognising the importance of conservation , and had been at the forefront in developing new commercial crossbred sheep which have proved a boon for Welsh farmers and their market awareness . |
| 7 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 8 | They had been a team for years : the tiny wiry Eve with her restless eyes never settling long on anything or anyone ; the big handsome Benny , with her green eyes and chestnut-brown hair , tied back with a bow always , a big soft good-quality bow a bit like Benny herself . |
| 9 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 10 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 11 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 12 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 13 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 14 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 15 | My going-away present to them had been a pair of inflatable yellow wheel clamps which I 'd attached front and aft to their VW Golf . |
| 16 | Conversation between them had been a problem in the hospital where they first met , right up to the night when she pushed his cot into an empty room , locked the door , took off her uniform and climbed in beside him . |
| 17 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 18 | Whatever sexual imaginings he 'd shaped in the darkness — Judith 's face , Judith 's breasts , belly , sex — all of them had been an illusion . |