Example sentences of "they had [be] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 2 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 5 | They had been drinking in the local dockyard club in the company of Maddison and his fiancee , Deborah Scott , 29 , and all four had left together . |
| 6 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
| 7 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 8 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 10 | There was a brief impression of two men stumbling down the track as though they had been hit in the leg , while the man with the pinned arm , having broken the arrow that held him , hurtled off in to the undergrowth . |
| 11 | But she did confirm that they had been deposited in the Kazachi Aquarium , which is surrounded by military bases , and not open to the public , before their bid for freedom . |
| 12 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
| 13 | But , while the main survey showed that men in general tended to be better informed about credit than women , that difference was too small to suggest that Asian women would have given a very different impression if they had been included in the groups . |
| 14 | They had been found in the royal palace , where most had served as altar furnishings . |
| 15 | In future , officers received specialist military training only after they had been educated in the round . |
| 16 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 17 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 18 | Most of them gave up right away , realising they had been caught in the jaws of a carefully laid trap . |
| 19 | They had been subdued in the Occupation years , but now went into the sixieme for a good time . |
| 20 | They had been buried in the bog for perhaps a century , until unearthed by the peat diggers . |
| 21 | He took the tiny bones of the stillborn girl from where they had been buried in the ice . |
| 22 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 23 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 24 | But besides being improbable in itself , it can scarcely be true , for Eadmer had mentioned that they had been produced in the royal court after Anselm 's death in 1109 . |
| 25 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 26 | Of this great brooding complex mineral creature they had been dropped in the midst of — safely , yes , into a pocket of calm and inattention , locally barren of signs of life … though barren for how long ? |
| 27 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 28 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 29 | We asked respondents whether they had been stopped ( on foot or in a vehicle ) or had their house searched in the last year , and whether they had been arrested in the last five years ( called here , ‘ stopped , etc . ’ ) |
| 30 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |