Example sentences of "they had been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst this is a fast and relatively painless process , the files will require handling in exactly the same way as if they had been transferred across a simple serial link . |
| 2 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 3 | They swirled together as though they had been stirred with a spoon . |
| 4 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 5 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 6 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 7 | Mosley 's later fascist ideas on government owed much to Lloyd George 's wartime reforms of the administrative structure , even if they had been devised in a democratic framework . |
| 8 | They had been charged with a variety of public order offences and been released on police bail to appear before magistrates at a later date . |
| 9 | They had been staying at a log cabin holiday home at Cropton , near Pickering , and yesterday , Ray Allanson , manager of the Forestry Commission 's Keldy Forest cabins , said : ‘ They left without any maps unaware of the dangers of walking in the forest at night . |
| 10 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 11 | If they had been born into a different culture they would have believed something quite different . |
| 12 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |
| 13 | They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin , for decency she supposed . |
| 14 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 15 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 16 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 17 | A year later , in October 1980 , after they had been dislodged from a public vigil in the main square of San Salvador , they occupied the offices of the Ministry of Justice . |
| 18 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 19 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 20 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 21 | If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly . |
| 22 | The tyres on the locomotive 's driving wheels were found to be of different sizes after they had been reprofiled by a well-known company in South Wales . |
| 23 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 24 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 25 | However , the authors qualify their findings by pointing out that the group of exposed women was , in fact , only presumed to have been exposed since they had been selected by a computer matching of topical tretinoin prescriptions to pregnant women 3–4 months after their estimated dates of conception . |
| 26 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 27 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 28 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 29 | Following a meeting with Collor on Aug. 26 , the 27 state governors acknowledged the need for amendments but refused to endorse the changes as proposed until they had been subjected to a wider debate . |
| 30 | He had cut off the girl 's head and put it next to her father 's on the garden path , where they had been found by a neighbour . |