Example sentences of "that they had been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 2 | On May 12 the director of the Lima morgue showed reporters the bodies of 36 people whose autopsies apparently showed that they had been shot dead after the siege had finished . |
| 3 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 4 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 6 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |