Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 2 | 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) ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 . |