Example sentences of "they had been [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was them , they had been through the house very , very carefully . |
| 2 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 3 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 4 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 5 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 6 | Certainly Churchill and Eden found that their dealings with Eisenhower and Dulles were no easier than they had been with the Democrats : in fact they often thought them worse . |
| 7 | They had been to the Maxwells ' for drinks and afterwards to see Shaw 's Saint Joan . |
| 8 | But , as Mosley noted with satisfaction , these supporters were no more use to their new leader than they had been to the BUF . |
| 9 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 10 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 11 | They had been to the estate , yes . |
| 12 | The audience were no surer of this than they had been of the song . |
| 13 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
| 14 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 15 | They had been at the airport for six hours , waiting for a flight , any flight out of Iraq , going anywhere . |
| 16 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 17 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 18 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 19 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 20 | They had been at the police station , making statements about an assault on Miss Wilson by a man on the night in question . |
| 21 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 22 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 23 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 24 | Yes , they had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 25 | They had been on the air just five minutes now , five minutes that felt like five years ! |
| 26 | ‘ At this point , they had been on the river for nearly three months , ’ he says , pulling lavishly at the bottle . |
| 27 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 28 | They had been on the ground floor all along . |
| 29 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 30 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |