Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 2 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 3 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 4 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 5 | A few people stayed loyal to the traditional beer , but they risked being scoffed at by their more fashionable friends . |
| 6 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 7 | They had been staying at a log cabin holiday home at Cropton , near Pickering , and yesterday , Ray Allanson , manager of the Forestry Commission 's Keldy Forest cabins , said : ‘ They left without any maps unaware of the dangers of walking in the forest at night . |
| 8 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 9 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 10 | But when they were late in arriving , Mr Stokes rang the agent and was told that they had been impounded at Dover for five weeks while checks were made for drugs . |
| 11 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 12 | They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form . |
| 13 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 14 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 15 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 16 | have denied overreacting in taking seven children into care after they had been left at home alone . |
| 17 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 18 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 19 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 20 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
| 21 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 22 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 23 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 24 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 25 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 26 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 27 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
| 28 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |