Example sentences of "they had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just now they had been utterly careless about the noise they made in the hay . |
| 2 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 3 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to suppose that they had been particularly depressed by the economic conditions of the inter-war period . |
| 5 | They had been particularly interested in what was termed ‘ totemism ’ , that is , the adoption of an animal , bird , reptile , insect or fish as a special emblem for a clan . |
| 6 | In view of their greater interest in Jarrad , the plaintiffs contended that they had been unfairly prejudiced . |
| 7 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 8 | They had been pretty systematic . |
| 9 | When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal . |
| 10 | The rift between the two men was particularly painful since they had been so close at first . |
| 11 | They had been so close at their boarding school ; but when they left , five years ago , they had drifted apart . |
| 12 | They had been so intent upon it , they never heard the back door open and shut , or saw the shadow at the scullery door until Marcus Judge said , ‘ Good morning , Emily . |
| 13 | They had been so mistaken , Quincx and Leila . |
| 14 | They had been so lucky with the weather ; a clear sky , and a soft breeze that kept everyone comfortable . |
| 15 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 16 | They had been so busy collecting the birds and tying them up . |
| 17 | ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other . |
| 18 | They had been so kind towards him , so very fond of the prodigal young man . |
| 19 | The Girl said that they had been so kind and welcoming ; food all served to them and very good , too , and such comfortable bed-chambers for their use . |
| 20 | The sections had been hard at work since 0600 hours , and they had been very successful at keeping all the teams on the road . |
| 21 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 22 | They had been very heady years . |
| 23 | They had been very thorough . |
| 24 | They also lost their entitlement to housing benefit and income support , upon which they had been very dependent as they were unemployed . |
| 25 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 26 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 27 | They had been very busy , she 'd been up early , and she felt sleepy . |
| 28 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 29 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 30 | The brandy , which they had been too polite to refuse , had made them drunk in a very short time , as they were not used to drinking anything stronger than beer . |