Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 2 | What parties they 'd been to when they were young , and Tom Reynard was holding court for his friends and their children . |
| 3 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 4 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 6 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 7 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 8 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 9 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 10 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 11 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 12 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 13 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 14 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 15 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 16 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 17 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 18 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 19 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 20 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 21 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 22 | what happened next was a landslide … everything Southend did went right … every shot they hit was on target … and every chance was taken … |
| 23 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
| 24 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 25 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 26 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 27 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 28 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 29 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 30 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |