Example sentences of "they had [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 2 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 3 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |
| 4 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 5 | They had been a knee-jerk reaction , the result of her feeling unsettled by Vitor 's reappearance . |