Example sentences of "they 'd been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 3 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 4 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 5 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 6 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 7 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 8 | They 'd been entwined in an embrace , and Sandy 's hair had been spread like a fan ; by Aldridge 's account it had been a touching , harrowing sight . |
| 9 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 10 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 11 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 12 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 13 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 14 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 15 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 16 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 17 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 18 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 19 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 20 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 21 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 22 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 23 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 24 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 25 | They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland . |
| 26 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 27 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 28 | They 'd been wiped off the face of the earth before they could taste her fury . |
| 29 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 30 | The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they 'd been draped in a blanket . |