Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 2 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 3 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
| 4 | They had already been alone in the house for 24 hours . |
| 5 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 6 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 7 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 8 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 9 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 10 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 11 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 12 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |