Example sentences of "of they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 2 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 3 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 4 | Now , in a classic delaying action , they forced the royalists to surrender after a mere seven of them had been killed . |
| 5 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 6 | So far neither of them had been defeated . |
| 7 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 8 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 9 | Sheila burst in late , breathless from a hilarious encounter between a raw young policeman and a group of women night cleaners picketing a building from which two of them had been sacked . |
| 10 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 11 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 12 | Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head . |
| 13 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 14 | None of them had been trained in covert operations other than when dealing with criminals . |
| 15 | So many of them had been trained by her and trusted her friendship and judgements . |
| 16 | I could not tell if any of them had been involved but pleaded with them : ‘ If you know anything , please tell . |
| 17 | There were ten listed , and four of them had been checked off . |
| 18 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 19 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 20 | Three of them had been detained by UNIFIL , but the other three had seized the 14 hostages . |
| 21 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 22 | There were yellow sodium lights down here , but most of them had been broken by kids throwing stones . |
| 23 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 24 | Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif ( whose relatives owned two of the four co-operatives implicated — see p. 38438 ) and Interior Minister Choudhry Shujat Hussain had admitted to receiving loans but said that all of them had been repaid . |
| 26 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 27 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 28 | The 17 defendants were convicted on the strength of two groups of evidence : their confessions made in police custody , and forensic tests which found that various of them had been handling explosives shortly before the bombings . |
| 29 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 30 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |