Example sentences of "they had [been] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 2 | The powerful midfielder , Mauro Silva , was the playmaker they had been looking to build the team around . |
| 3 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 4 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 5 | Vessels from the cemeteries in north-east England , Baston and Elsham ( Lincolnshire ) , and Sancton ( East Yorkshire ) were found to have fabrics specific to the respective cemeteries , although they had been decorated using the same set of dies . |
| 6 | It was almost as if they had been hired to give the tourist a suitable first impression of the Eternal City . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Liat airlines said they had been told to expect a ‘ prominent personality ’ to arrive in Antigua today . |
| 8 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 9 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |