Example sentences of "they [vb past] be at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 2 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 3 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 5 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 6 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 7 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 8 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 9 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 10 | They had been at the police station , making statements about an assault on Miss Wilson by a man on the night in question . |