Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 2 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 3 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 4 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 5 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 6 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 7 | There was still a general assumption that the self-confidence and savoir-faire they conferred were essential in any aspirant to one of the major embassies . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Syrians four years ago after allegations that they 'd been involved in trying to below up and Israeli airliner . |
| 11 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 12 | They 'd been good to Mam , though , sending her money when they could . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 14 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 15 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |
| 16 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 17 | They 'd been OK till then — well , I had n't thought about it , they were just my parents , you do n't complain , you do n't know any different — but then … |
| 18 | Carrie thought of bombs falling , of the war going on all this year they 'd been safe in the valley ; going on over their heads like grown-up conversation when she 'd been too small to listen . |
| 19 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 20 | They 'd been happy behind their cork and we 'd torn down their cover . |
| 21 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 22 | They 'd been builder-restored as a unit , and they looked too picturesque to be true . |
| 23 | Of course the question in the EPQ does not refer solely to driving and the population they sampled are unlikely to be driving particularly regularly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 26 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 27 | For example in Mustad v Allcock and Dosen [ 1963 ] 3 All ER 416 it was held that because the appellants had published the information which they alleged was confidential in a patent specification they were not entitled to an injunction restraining the respondents from disclosing that information . |
| 28 | The papal letter which they brought was uncompromising in principle , though noticeably vague in its terms . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |