Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been warned to report any further attacks and obviously do n't want to take any chances . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 3 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 4 | Only five minutes before the hearings began they had been allowed to read these for themselves , and in the words of one family friend , the Reverend Derek Edwards , ‘ they were devastating … ’ |
| 5 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |