Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 2 | I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues . |
| 3 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 4 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 5 | Between er , er the best , the best end of the scale ones which I would of thought if they 'd been submitted to something like a general |
| 6 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 7 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 8 | Some of the individuals they trapped were found to be wearing rings already . |
| 9 | You know sure there were committees to manage either financial affairs , or various other bits and pieces that went on , but even then decisions they took were taken to the lodge to be voted on . |
| 10 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 11 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 12 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 13 | They had been increased to six a year ; five for the Apprentices , conducted by the Demonstrator and one , the General Herborising , for Members only . |
| 14 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 15 | The appellant claimed that they had been sent to the wrong office . |
| 16 | They had been sent to the group as part of a fur " amnesty " sponsored by them . |
| 17 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |
| 18 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 19 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 20 | You would go in there planning to discuss , say , her habit of ogling men in restaurants or her inability to repay money she had borrowed , or her ability to disseminate confidences throughout the whole of Wimbledon about five minutes after they had been imparted to her , and you would end up discussing the state of affairs in Europe , the merits of Beethoven , or , more usually , your own deficiencies . |
| 21 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 22 | They had been sentenced to between five and 14 years ' imprisonment on the basis of forensic evidence from hand swabs indicating that they had handled nitroglycerine . |
| 23 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 24 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 25 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 26 | They had been followed to Sleetburn by the Wilkinson family , who had moved from West Thorngarth Hill down the dale at Hury because they needed a bigger farm , I seem to remember . |
| 27 | On Dec. 28 Gaviria admitted in an interview that official talks had taken place with the drug cartel ; however , he said , they had been limited to offering traffickers protection if they surrendered . |
| 28 | Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any . |
| 29 | Other men confirmed that they had been subjected to her unwanted attentions and ‘ filthy language ’ over six years but had not reported her . |
| 30 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |