Example sentences of "their [noun pl] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the eagle badge on their shakos had been changed , replaced by a ‘ W ’ for King William of the Netherlands , but otherwise the Dutch-Belgians were dressed exactly like the men they were doubtless about to fight . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know how much longer we can hope to keep this a clandestine relationship , ’ Luke said sardonically one Friday night when the immediate edge of the savage hunger for each other that built up during their partings had been soothed by a wildly abandoned reunion . |
| 3 | Their throats had been slashed open and their bodies stripped naked . |
| 4 | Their throats had been cut and they lay like butchered animals in a waste of blood . |
| 5 | The Prussian government 's minister of finance , Peter Beuth , had been forced to offer subsidy to encourage industry in the years 1818–45 , when it was realised that the kind of large-scale enterprise that Prussia would need to enter the international market was already beyond the pocket of most individuals , and beyond the imagination of the Junkers , who might have supplied finance if their estates had been more productive . |
| 6 | But , he said , they should never be seduced into thinking their policies had been so effective that there was no risk of relapse . |
| 7 | Their ranks had been much augmented by the expansion of the salaried sector — managers , clerks , school teachers and civil servants . |
| 8 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 9 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 10 | In rural areas villagers had been detained and their houses had been burned in connection with land disputes , names were given of people held for up to 10 years without charge , and many who had been detained spoke of beatings in prison . |
| 11 | Encircled by British , French and Italian territories , they were intensely proud of their age-old independence and very conscious that their forefathers had been among the earliest converts to Christianity . |
| 12 | Coun. Mrs Heather Scott ( C ) said it was unfair to impose a flat rise on tenants regardless of whether their homes had been repaired . |
| 13 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 14 | Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees . |
| 15 | They lost no time in petitioning the Home Secretary ‘ complaining that their privileges had been infringed upon by the Charter granted to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and praying for relief ’ . |
| 16 | Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system . |
| 17 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 18 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 19 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 20 | Very few of the battalion returned home as their losses had been so heavy , and Joe told the family he was now in a holding battalion . |
| 21 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 22 | A year or so after Prince Harry 's birth , there occurred a rather uncomfortable interview with both Waleses in discussion with Sir Alastair Burnet ( in November 1985 ) , in which it appeared that their roles had been totally reversed : the Princess had become articulate , while the Prince appeared almost monosyllabic . |
| 23 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 24 | Neither the American nor most of the European press was subject to such restraints , and their readers had been regaled throughout the summer with photographs and titillating reports of a royal cruise down the Dalmatian coast . |
| 25 | Their voices had been very low . |
| 26 | Up to that time their lives had been appallingly difficult , given the savage treatment their fellow-Poles meted out to them . |
| 27 | By the time it came out , in any case , all their lives had been irrevocably altered by the progress of world events . |
| 28 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 29 | Their lives had been a circular journey : no less than nine of them had spent their schooldays there . |
| 30 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |