Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 2 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 3 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 4 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 5 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |