Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 2 | But they had been better than her family . |
| 3 | If only they had been stricter with her . |
| 4 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 5 | Oh , they had been happier times ! |
| 6 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 7 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 8 | There was no dispute in the proceedings before the judge , nor is there now , that the appellants were served with that notice of motion , as they had been earlier with the notice of the order made by the deputy judge . |
| 9 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 10 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 11 | If they had been younger , they could have scaled the Rockies in this high-stepping habit . |
| 12 | Now in Selby for example , where I think a we'v Bill and I have tried to offset the balance a little bit , but in the past they have been better staffed . |
| 13 | Although they have been quieter than their conservative counterparts , liberal Democrats , and especially the members of the black caucus , have been deeply unhappy at the way policy has developed during the spring . |