Example sentences of "what they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 2 | It had n't been what they 'd been told to expect by the Daily Mail . |
| 3 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 4 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 5 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 6 | Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it . |
| 7 | That 's what they 'd been told to do . |
| 8 | The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ? |
| 9 | The vibrancers had truly believed what they 'd been taught and had never questioned anything . |
| 10 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 11 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 12 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 13 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 14 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 15 | They , they , what they 'd been doing was shooting them over and they 'd just had n't been exploded , they said dud shell or something . |
| 16 | Oh god , mind you there was a fire last night , and the fire could n't tell , just by looking at somebody , what they 'd been up too , you get . |
| 17 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 18 | Everyone got happily drunk together and a good time was had by all ; so long as the band kept the beat , what they played was immaterial . |
| 19 | The auction houses quite wisely retreated , leaving specialist dealers bemoaning what they alleged were short-sighted policies . |
| 20 | What they resurrected was the idea of orgiastic music , a feast of sound — something that contravened both punk 's parsimonious and anorexic tenets of economy and tightness , and pop soul 's belief that The Song is best served by understated , deferential ‘ backing ’ . |
| 21 | The Americans believed that priority should be given to the restructuring of the European economies in the long term whereas the British were preoccupied with what they argued was a short-term dollar crisis . |
| 22 | Reading between the lines , what they meant was that they were not going to train people who might keel over and die before the CAB had had its money 's worth . |
| 23 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 24 | But they knew too little about him and what they knew was bewildering . |
| 25 | Vaisey J went on to say that the employers had shown " the utmost carelessness in allowing this defendant to get knowledge of what they knew was a very valuable secret … |
| 26 | Clients would arrive with specific problems , often of a financial nature , but what they received was questioning directed at matters that seemed entirely irrelevant to the needs they were presenting . |
| 27 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 28 | What , what they thought is that all the ones that |
| 29 | What they thought is because he 's assessing them and she 's , they 're assessing us while he 's assessing them . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |