Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 2 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 3 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 4 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
| 5 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 6 | Odd , I thought , as I confirmed the number which they had been given . |
| 7 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 8 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 9 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 10 | Both Hastings and McGeechan ranked the Scottish effort as one of the finest in which they had been involved . |
| 11 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 12 | The tree to which they had been tethered was still there , but the horses had disappeared . |
| 13 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 14 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 15 | I would eat tinned vegetables , being sure to drink the water in which they had been canned , and I would conserve body fluid by eating little or no protein . |
| 16 | By the end of 1941 it looked as though the Communists and their supporters had established the monopoly over the Left for which they had been striving since their foundation . |
| 17 | However , on Oct. 8 the " Prime Ministers " of Krajina and Slavonia — two self-proclaimed Serbian autonomous regions ( SARs ) in Croatia , Milan Babic and Goran Hadzic , boycotted the meeting in The Hague to which they had been invited , because they refused to be treated as a " minority " . |
| 18 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 19 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 20 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 21 | It was n't so much his words which comforted Cassie , but rather the tone in which they had been said . |
| 22 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 23 | Moreover , it was possible to reconstruct a universe in which Christian doctrines remained intact , even if the imagery through which they had been expressed was gradually discarded . |
| 24 | Clearly , therefore , children preferred the inner-city environment and family life in which they had been born and reared . |
| 25 | They wound Sycorax 's light dry spoil in two banana leaves , laid lengthwise and sewn together with dried strips of aloe , and then chose to dig a vertical grave at the foot of the saman tree , the designated place , for which they had been granted permission . |
| 26 | The Institute published guidance ( no longer extant ) on the need to state clearly the addressees of reports , the purposes for which they had been prepared and to exclude purposes for which reports were not intended . |
| 27 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 28 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
| 29 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 30 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |