Example sentences of "they had been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |
| 2 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 3 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 4 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 5 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 6 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 7 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 8 | It was quite obvious they had been ordered specially in advance . |
| 9 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 10 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 11 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 12 | They had been salted away in mothballs and smelt of naphthalene . |
| 13 | Because of events at the time , his pain at these losses had not been recognized ; they had been buried deep in his memory . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 15 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 16 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 17 | The " Open Skies " policy had been proposed by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112 ] , and test flights had been made in eastern Europe [ see p. 37201 ] , but talks on its implementation had effectively been suspended in May 1990 after Soviet expressions of reservations over militarily sensitive areas [ see pp. 37267 ; 38255 ] and they had been reconvened only on Sept. 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] . |
| 18 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 19 | He did admit afterwards that they had been carried away by trying to make a quick breakthrough and had bowled badly , but it still left an unpleasant taste . |
| 20 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 21 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 22 | They had been put nominally under the command of ex-army officers like Tubby , to give them a cloak of respectability , but Tubby pointed out that they were n't army units or subject to army authority . |
| 23 | Previously they had been grouped together in one modern frame . |
| 24 | The farmers ' tenacity is extraordinary : they had been looted repeatedly of their tools and crops , but continue to work the fields every day , planting their meagre remaining seed reserve . |
| 25 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |
| 26 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 27 | The dining area was the same canopy beneath which they had been interviewed earlier in the day , only now the matting was covered with carpets , some of them very fine , and an inverted ‘ U ’ of low square tables of some dark wood had been set out . |
| 28 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 29 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 30 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |