Example sentences of "they had been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
2 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
3 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
4 | There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war . |
5 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |
6 | JUST WHEN you thought that too many of them had been offed at the end of the first one , out rides the sequel . |