Example sentences of "they [vb past] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel . |
| 3 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 4 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 5 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 6 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 7 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 8 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 9 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 10 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 11 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 12 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 13 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 14 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 15 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 16 | In this case , space is left unused in the main data area when the file is created , and additions are located on the same cylinder ( IBM ) or seek area ( ICL ) that they would have occupied if they had been part of the file when it was created . |
| 17 | On July 19 three of the original five asylum seekers told Cuban television that they had been part of a plot hatched by diplomats from the US Interests Section and from the Czechoslovak , West German and Canadian embassies , all of whom denied the allegation . |
| 18 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 19 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 20 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 21 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 22 | They had been desires to be quenched , as he had quenched other desires over the years . |
| 23 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 24 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |