Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 2 | They 'd still not been replaced . |
| 3 | They had just not been prepared to support a lost cause . |
| 4 | There were more hedges but fewer heaths ; in some parts less arable than ever before , in other parts more than ever before ; and the coming of the canals about the same time also introduced new varieties of birds to districts where they had previously never been known . |
| 5 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 6 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 7 | And since then they had never not been together . |
| 8 | ‘ Both the settlers and the natives assured me ’ , wrote Gould , ‘ that they [ the bronzewings ] had suddenly arrived , and that they had never before been seen in that part of the country . |
| 9 | And yet somehow the thing was still able to consume and digest the normal fats and proteins , converting them to energy , in a complex manner which they had never really been able to explain . |
| 10 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 11 | Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies . |
| 12 | With the exception of Khartoum ( previously a province ) they had all previously been regions . |