Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 3 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 4 | Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose not , ’ Alyssia commented neutrally , then she said with a little more of her customary fire , ‘ although I feel as though I 've gone through my entire life with people doing what they felt was best for me . ’ |
| 6 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 7 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 8 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 9 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 10 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 11 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 12 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 13 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 14 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 15 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 16 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 17 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 18 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 19 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 20 | During the follow up period there were only five ears in which fluid recurred and persisted for at least one year after they had been clear for at least one year . |
| 21 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |