Example sentences of "[conj] they had [been] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 2 | A Thai Army official admitted on Jan. 2 , 1990 , that Myanma soldiers had crossed the Moei river but denied that they had been given permission to do so . |
| 3 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 4 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 5 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 6 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 7 | Recent press coverage was given to a newly married couple , both aged 85 , who arrived at their hotel to discover that they had been allocated twin beds . |
| 8 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 9 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 10 | The explosion detached the separate wings as if they had been plucked feathers . |
| 11 | A recent study , published in The Lancet , found that premature babies were six to ten times more likely to get necrotising enterocolitis — the most common , serious gastro-intestinal disease seen in special-care units — if they had been fed formula milk in place of breast milk . |
| 12 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 13 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 14 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 15 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 16 | It was crammed full of good ideas which you could n't sensibly argue with , but they had been turned upside down . |
| 17 | Its members occupied seats reserved for whites in a lunch counter at a Woolworth store in Greensboro , North Carolina , after they had been refused service . |
| 18 | The north London club 's preparations were far from ideal , entering the game just 48 hours after they had been fined £50,000 for a breach of League regulations and chairman Stan Flashman had been involved in a scuffle with photographers at the London hearing . |
| 19 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 20 | Although quite a few had subsequently been dismissed , both Braithwaite and Colclough having had their spies in the Chartist ranks , men who had sung those Chartist hymns about freedom and justice the loudest as they had been memorizing names and faces to sell afterwards to Uriah and Ben . |
| 21 | Troops were called in ( as they had been to protect fueldumps ) . |