Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 2 | During the trial the court had heard from a succession of alleged victims , all now adults , who claimed they had been ill-treated by the Hanbys . |
| 3 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 4 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 5 | Of the 532 — members of all social classes and from all over the country — 24 girls and 13 boys said they had been involved in prostitution at some time . |
| 6 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |
| 8 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 9 | He had just glanced at his wristwatch , to discover that Cunningham 's arrival still lay approximately two replays of Little Brown Jug in the future , when a woman slid onto the next bar-stool to his and said : ‘ Hello , Harry , ’ in a tone of husky confidence which suggested they had been lifelong friends . |
| 10 | Two members of the jury threatened to sue , because the comments ( which were based upon mis-statements of fact ) suggested they had been false to their oaths by acquitting black defendants because they ( the jurors ) were black . |
| 11 | The Indians considered they had been double-crossed . |