Example sentences of "[adv] they had [been] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | No matter how long they had been unemployed , the Girls felt guilty when auditioning for other troupes . |
| 5 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 6 | Robbie had no idea how long they had been stationary . |
| 7 | However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
| 17 | Yes , they were household names — and perhaps they had been around too long . |
| 18 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If only they had been stricter with her . |
| 22 | well there are fifty one law abiding citizens and there are forty nine potential felons if only they had been |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 25 | When her husband and daughter returned home they had been distressed at not finding Margaret . |
| 26 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 27 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 28 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 29 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 30 | Perhaps by now they had been totally cowed . ) |