Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This they knew was the work of wolves . |
| 2 | They did not recognize the British calendar , or , indeed , she was later to discover , their own : their first choice of conference date had been Boxing Day , but from this they had been dissuaded . |
| 3 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 4 | Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board . |
| 5 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
| 6 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 7 | Because there was no advice whatsoever , very few saved and only later realized how foolish and extravagant they had been : |
| 8 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 9 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 10 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 11 | Workers leaving the site tonight seemed reluctant to say anything , but it was obvious they 'd been told something … and it was n't good news . |
| 12 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 13 | It was quite obvious they had been ordered specially in advance . |
| 14 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 15 | How lucky they had been to have grandparents living at Thrush Green , thought Joan , looking back to those happy days with affection . |
| 16 | By the time a Scots undertaker 's horseman and his widow were dead , ‘ the little they had was all gone ; ’ and this would have been typical enough . |
| 17 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 18 | Although sure they had been seen , he thought that their only chance of escape was to run to better cover . |
| 19 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 20 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 21 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 22 | I doubt if they have any better cards in now , cos all they had was that |
| 23 | My God , if all they had were Haggisburgers , I 'd eat those . |
| 24 | There was a gap while Cobalt was talking and all they heard was Rain 's murmur of interest . |
| 25 | No I know , I 'm just saying that all they sent was a , a statement book . |
| 26 | But , instead of the freedom and ease they had longed for , all they felt was emptiness where once all was tension and work . |
| 27 | All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway . |
| 28 | No one could blame them if all they felt was rage and all they wanted was revenge . |
| 29 | Every time they looked up last night all they experienced was rain , rain and more rain . |
| 30 | ‘ They just used to crawl around in swamps and stuff , and all they breathed was stink , ’ said Hrun , lying down in the bunk . |