Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 2 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 3 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 4 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 5 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 6 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 7 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 8 | That is why , according to Eliot , soda siphons from that firm — I have never checked this — bear on their labels some phrase to the effect that they had been thoroughly and exhaustively tested . |
| 9 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 10 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 11 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 12 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 13 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 14 | Davis 's other objection , that islands within barrier reefs should show signs of recent cliffing if they had been strongly attacked by marine erosion during low glacial sea levels , is , according to Daly , due to Davis misinterpreting the Glacial Control theory , which does not involve glacial but preglacial planations . |
| 15 | There is no reason at all to suppose that the policies of these states would have been more intelligent or less influenced by fear and ambition if they had been decided by parliaments elected on the widest and fairest franchise possible and carried out by diplomatic services freed from social distinctions . |
| 16 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 17 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 18 | When an exasperated Bassett eventually did tell them to shut up , two of them immediately demanded police action because THEY had been offended and an investigation ensued . |
| 19 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 20 | This was a welcome change from the approach of the House of Lords majority in Home Office v Harman , decided a few years earlier , which held that a solicitor committed contempt by showing the other side 's private documents to a journalist after they had been read out in open court . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 22 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 23 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 24 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 25 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 26 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 27 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 28 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 29 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 30 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |