Example sentences of "they had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling was puzzled as to why the place was not a scene of feverish activity , but while they had been about their business Rommel was in the process of retaking Benghazi . |
| 2 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 3 | They had been through his things . |
| 4 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 5 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 6 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 7 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 8 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 9 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
| 10 | They had been through all this before . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 12 | If it was them , they had been through the house very , very carefully . |
| 13 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 14 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 15 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 16 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 17 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 18 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 19 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 20 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 21 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 22 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 23 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 24 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 25 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 26 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 27 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 28 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 29 | On the contrary , such dispositions of honores and patronage were , as they had been for Charles 's predecessors , crucial instruments of royal power in the regions . |
| 30 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |