Example sentences of "[noun] they had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 3 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 4 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 5 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 6 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 7 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 8 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 9 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 10 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 11 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 12 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 13 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 14 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 15 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 16 | The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong . |
| 17 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 18 | Of this great brooding complex mineral creature they had been dropped in the midst of — safely , yes , into a pocket of calm and inattention , locally barren of signs of life … though barren for how long ? |
| 19 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 20 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 21 | Patients presenting with clinical evidence of gastrointestinal haemorrhage were endoscoped urgently , the source of bleeding identified , and appropriate treatment instituted including endoscopic sclerotherapy irrespective of which arm of the trial they had been randomised to . |
| 22 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 23 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 24 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 25 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 26 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 27 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 28 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 29 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 30 | Shamlou guessed that was the reason they had been chosen as ‘ sleepers ’ . |