Example sentences of "they had [adv] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 2 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 3 | But we did n't want to cause embarrassment — after all , they had just been awarded a ‘ Proddy ’ award for services to dogs ! |
| 4 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 5 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 6 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 7 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 8 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 9 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 10 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 11 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 12 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 13 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 14 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 15 | They had always been fed a diet of worksheets which led them along step by step — now they were thinking and making decisions for themselves . |
| 16 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 17 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |