Example sentences of "of they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What neither of them knew was that the morning pouch from Riyadh contained a confidential letter from Steve Pyle to the London-based General Manager for Overseas Operations . |
| 2 | The studios were rocking from an earthquake none of them believed was happening . |
| 3 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 4 | Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover . |
| 5 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 6 | I was green at my job and some of them had been around twenty-five to thirty years doing this sort of work . |
| 7 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 8 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 9 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 10 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 11 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 12 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 13 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 14 | When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 15 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 16 | So far neither of them had been defeated . |
| 17 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 18 | I could not tell if any of them had been involved but pleaded with them : ‘ If you know anything , please tell . |
| 19 | If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won . |
| 20 | Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium . |
| 21 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 22 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 23 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 24 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 25 | The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface . |
| 26 | Now , in a classic delaying action , they forced the royalists to surrender after a mere seven of them had been killed . |
| 27 | The two of them had been virtually inseparable — periods of separation coinciding with the respective presences of boy-friends ; even though Sheila had left university abruptly in her second year , hating the academic competitiveness . |
| 28 | Sheila burst in late , breathless from a hilarious encounter between a raw young policeman and a group of women night cleaners picketing a building from which two of them had been sacked . |
| 29 | All of them had been in there , seeing to their charges . |
| 30 | When the prisoners were moved , two of them had been in The Fleet for thirty years . |