Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 2 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 3 | But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used . |
| 4 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 5 | Some of the African students taken into custody by the police claimed they had been beaten up . |
| 6 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 7 | Nearly all interviewees claimed they had been forced to cut down on food and fuel and many reported ill health . |
| 8 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 9 | He indicated they had been killed by shelling , seeming to contradict reports that many in Zepa had starved to death . |
| 10 | Only five minutes before the hearings began they had been allowed to read these for themselves , and in the words of one family friend , the Reverend Derek Edwards , ‘ they were devastating … ’ |
| 11 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 12 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 13 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 14 | The accident happened after a stolen red rover car accelerated away into King edwards avenue , when it 's occupants realised they had been spotted by a police patrol . |
| 15 | The guards were so drunk they hardly realised they had been outcheated and slunk off to their pallet beds . |
| 16 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 17 | Det Con Turnbull recognised two of the youths and his inquiries revealed they had been overheard talking about cash and an off-licence . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough Labour candidate Stuart Bell revealed they had been told there was a waiting list of several months but his parents were advised he was going deaf and if he went private he would be in hospital within three weeks . |
| 19 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 20 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 21 | They felt they had been abused themselves ; they felt impotent against the power weighed against them ; they felt they had no way to fight back . |
| 22 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 23 | After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges . |
| 24 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 25 | The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out . |
| 26 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 27 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 28 | I thought they 'd been killed , she realized . |
| 29 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 30 | He thought they had been carved by people living in the tombs , perhaps the monks , who dreamed fine dreams of other places , who longed for new horizons . |