Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 2 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 3 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 4 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 5 | No matter how long they had been unemployed , the Girls felt guilty when auditioning for other troupes . |
| 6 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 7 | Robbie had no idea how long they had been stationary . |
| 8 | However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Following the usual exchanges I enquired how long they 'd been there . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 11 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other . |
| 17 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 18 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
| 19 | Yes , they were household names — and perhaps they had been around too long . |
| 20 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 21 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 22 | all they wanted was to get their commission . |
| 23 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 24 | Around the the the shop so , obviously they 'd been either been casting brass , at some time or other . |
| 25 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 26 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 27 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 28 | If only they had been stricter with her . |
| 29 | well there are fifty one law abiding citizens and there are forty nine potential felons if only they had been |
| 30 | So they had been theoretically rehabilitated , set at liberty — some mere shells after interrogations as fearful as one 's most perverted imaginings might devise — only to be pulled in again just as their taut nerves had said , yes , they were free of the cord . |