Example sentences of "but they had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 2 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 3 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 4 | But they had n't been born then . ’ |
| 5 | The Old Testament kings had been warriors and conquerors , smiting their enemies , but they had also been vehicles through whom the law of God was interpreted and enforced . |
| 6 | Similarly , at the other end of the belt , Chalk was later discovered in south-west Ireland ( where it must have been noticed by the early surveyors , but they had evidently been too scared of their autocratic director to record such an unlikely phenomenon ) . |
| 7 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 8 | When I came over here , I knew what the LH and the Grand Cherokee were , but they had not been introduced and I had n't driven them . |
| 9 | But they had not been destroyed by the explosion : bewilderingly , their bodies were found in the garden some distance from the house , and they had obviously been strangled . |
| 10 | Originally most had been placed satisfactorily but they had not been followed up and had drifted away two or three years later as circumstances changed . |
| 11 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 12 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 13 | From the 1650s onwards , judges had ordered convicts to be transported , but they had only been able to do this by passing a death sentence and then getting it commuted . |
| 14 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |
| 15 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 16 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |