Example sentences of "of [Wh det] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) provides that copies of reasons in writing are to be given by the board to all the parties to the hearing in respect of which they have been requested , and subs . |
| 3 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 4 | Unfortunately they were shipwrecked and lost much of what they had been given . |
| 5 | He brightened as he recalled some of what they had been told . |
| 6 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 7 | Young people feel cheated by their parents without really knowing of what they have been deprived . |
| 8 | Their dangerous truths are left in the hands of politicians , some of them people who are driven by little things , like the desire for personal power , and who do n't understand the explosive possibilities of what they have been given ; or if they understand , do n't care . |
| 9 | However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact . |
| 10 | No one who is either a parent or a teacher can fail to be aware of the vast differences between children of 7 , not because of what they have been taught , but because of their rate of development and their maturity . |