Example sentences of "they [vb past] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him . |
| 3 | They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel . |
| 4 | It was claimed the birds were related and they 'd been captive bred . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd been pals since they were schoolkids . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 7 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 8 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 9 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 10 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 11 | They 'd been snakes . |
| 12 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps they objected to the destruction of Buckingham and the web of deceit to which they 'd been party ? ’ |
| 14 | And these disciples and Jesus , some of them seasoned , experienced fishermen , they 'd been fishermen all their lives , their fathers had been fishermen before them and they were frightened ! |
| 15 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 17 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 18 | They had been friends when he was grown up . |
| 19 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 20 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 21 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 22 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 23 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 24 | Because she was tired of looking at flats that were really bedsits , and bedsits that were really cupboards , but cost as much as if they had been flats . |
| 25 | On the polo field they had been dynamite and almost telepathetic in anticipating each other 's moves . |
| 26 | This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled . |
| 27 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 28 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 29 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 30 | They were twisted and butchered and maimed and it was difficult to see if they had been Oaks or Beeches or Elms or what . |