Example sentences of "[pos pn] family [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers said innocent men 's lives had been put at risk and their families had been forced to move house because identities had been disclosed . |
| 2 | A group of American businessman and their families had been invited to the airport for the president to pump their hands . |
| 3 | On June 10 , 14,500 US service personnel and their families had been evacuated from Clark Air Base , 15 km east of Pinatubo , to Subic Bay naval base , about 40 km south-west of the volcano . |
| 4 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 5 | The material deprivation many women and their families experienced was only one aspect of their poverty . |
| 6 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 7 | No one in her family had been the same since Anthony 's funeral . |
| 8 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 9 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 10 | probably her family had been taken as captives when she was a child , for the conquest of the Alan country had taken place when Jehan was a youth . |
| 11 | Whenever her family had been mentioned she looked as guilty as hell . |
| 12 | It was also reported that two of the three men on trial with Talb or members of their family had been seen with Dalkammoni . |
| 13 | His son Themba , who is studying at Liverpool University , said yesterday on the telephone that his family had been reliably informed that he and Mr Sisulu would be out this month . |
| 14 | Mellor 's wife Judith and son Freddie , eight , watched from a gallery as the ex-Minister said his family had been a tower of strength throughout the whole ‘ sorry mess . ’ |
| 15 | His family had been very poor when he was young , and it had left a lasting impression on him . |
| 16 | It might appear that Mynne and his family had been ruined by a combination of the forest laws , the drive against exacted fees , and finally by backing the losing side in the civil war : yet their liquid assets must have been very considerable . |
| 17 | Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art , and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur . |
| 18 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 19 | This replica handgun , complete with blank cartridges and this airpistol were taken from 3 youths after a father complained to police that his family had been fired at from a car , as they drove down Barton Street in Tewkesbury . |
| 20 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 21 | SPURS chairman Alan Sugar said yesterday that his family had been terrified by the hate campaign surrounding his legal battle with Terry Venables . |
| 22 | Before he was sentenced , Tony McGeorge , defending , said Clarke 's wife had divorced him and his family had been threatened since the tragedy . |
| 23 | Mr Wilson , a forty seven year old accountant , was shot through the head twice after his family had been tied up and held captive . |
| 24 | The only communication between him and his family had been letters smuggled out . |