Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] been [verb] " 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 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 5 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 7 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been dropped by birds . |
| 10 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 11 | Obviously they had been infiltrated by the enemies who still lay in wait for him in Russia . |
| 12 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 15 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 16 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 21 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 22 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 23 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 24 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 25 | He wondered if they had been primed to talk to him , and how far they had been told they could go . |
| 26 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 27 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 28 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 29 | But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation . |
| 30 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |