Example sentences of "and they had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | On investigation , it was apparent that the claimant had been unaware of the regulations in this respect , and they had also been overlooked by the supervisor and administrative assistant who were involved in processing the claim . |
| 2 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 3 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 4 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 5 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 6 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 7 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 8 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |
| 9 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 10 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 11 | But they had not been destroyed by the explosion : bewilderingly , their bodies were found in the garden some distance from the house , and they had obviously been strangled . |
| 12 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 13 | I was here and this house was here , you and I and this evening were here , and they had always been here , like reflections of my own coming . |