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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 4 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |