Example sentences of "but they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Air Force Memorial Fund ( later to become the RAF Benevolent Fund ) had originally hoped to erect a memorial on ground between Westminster Abbey and St Margaret 's Church , but they had been unable to get permission . |
| 2 | But they had been better than her family . |
| 3 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 4 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
| 5 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 6 | But they had been few in number . |
| 7 | Opinion polls suggested a Conservative win , but they had been wrong too often in the past to inspire confidence . |
| 8 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 9 | A bit correct for a small boy , a little formal , but they had been his proxy parents for school terms after his father 's death , and after his mother had taken off with Herbie . |
| 10 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 11 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 12 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 13 | Mrs Rundle had once had varicose veins but they had been cut out . |
| 14 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 15 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 16 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 17 | For a while the authorities had replaced the Bunsen burners , test-tubes , textbooks and phials of chemicals which fell victim to the ravages of the undisciplined , but they had been forced to accept defeat . |
| 18 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 19 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 20 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 21 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 22 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 23 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 24 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 25 | Marcus and the redhead were n't in the room with the cloth on the table but they had been . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was crammed full of good ideas which you could n't sensibly argue with , but they had been turned upside down . |
| 28 | Giving graphic details of the 11-hour stand-off , Capt Goebel said Demeke had held the gun to his head or that of his co-pilot for most of the flight , but they had been able to build a rapport with him . |
| 29 | The district council had offered to go to Boston to discuss the situation with Digital executives but they had been told there was little they could do . |
| 30 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |