Example sentences of "[adv] they had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 2 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 3 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 4 | No matter how long they had been unemployed , the Girls felt guilty when auditioning for other troupes . |
| 5 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 6 | Robbie had no idea how long they had been stationary . |
| 7 | However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 11 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been his footsteps they 'd heard above them earlier . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
| 17 | Yes , they were household names — and perhaps they had been around too long . |
| 18 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 19 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 20 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 21 | If only they had been stricter with her . |
| 22 | well there are fifty one law abiding citizens and there are forty nine potential felons if only they had been |
| 23 | So they had been theoretically rehabilitated , set at liberty — some mere shells after interrogations as fearful as one 's most perverted imaginings might devise — only to be pulled in again just as their taut nerves had said , yes , they were free of the cord . |
| 24 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 25 | Growing congressional concern over the matter had also been demonstrated by the decision of the Senate armed services committee to block promotion for more than 4,500 Navy and Marine Corps officers until information was forthcoming on whether or not they had been involved in the assaults . |
| 26 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 27 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 28 | When her husband and daughter returned home they had been distressed at not finding Margaret . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |