Example sentences of "they had [be] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was them , they had been through the house very , very carefully . |
| 2 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 3 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 4 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 5 | They had been to the estate , yes . |
| 6 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 7 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 8 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 9 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 10 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 11 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 12 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 13 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 14 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 15 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 16 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 17 | Yes , they had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 18 | They had been on the air just five minutes now , five minutes that felt like five years ! |
| 19 | ‘ At this point , they had been on the river for nearly three months , ’ he says , pulling lavishly at the bottle . |
| 20 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 21 | They had been on the ground floor all along . |
| 22 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 23 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 24 | If the waiters were curious about the room being in darkness they neither said nor did anything which indicated it ; they had been in the hotel business for far too many years now to be surprised by the antics or activities of the guests . |
| 25 | He thought that they would be happier under the cockpit awning than they had been in the water . |
| 26 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 27 | At a media briefing in the House of Commons , the five main polling organisations — Gallup , Harris , ICM , NOP and MORI — reminded political editors and other interested journalists how accurate they had been in the past . |
| 28 | But the fly in the ointment , from the princes ' point of view , lay in the fact that their advantages were now more widely shared than they had been in the past . |
| 29 | Henceforward , at least in theory , the highest echelons of society were less likely to be permeated by gifted but landless bureaucrats than they had been in the past . |
| 30 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |