Example sentences of "theirs had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 2 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 3 | Theirs had been an ardour so fierce , so spontaneous and reckless that their respective backgrounds , the possibility of pregnancy , the fact that one of them was married , were of no account . |
| 4 | Just as this world of theirs had been tampered with , so too had the child . |
| 5 | She had been too busy looking after people to pay much attention to the way her life was going , but compared with Lottie 's life and his brother and sister-in-law 's , theirs had been very humdrum . |
| 6 | Theirs had been a friendship she 'd trusted and valued . |