Example sentences of "they [vb past] first be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
| 2 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 3 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 4 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 5 | Even when they had first been married , Ross has always been quite determined that — |