Example sentences of "they had be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 2 | ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’ |
| 3 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 4 | The Melanisms seemed to have retreated into their dark corners again , but Fenella had the feeling that they were simply mustering their strength again ; they had been baulked of their prey and they had retired . |
| 5 | No attempt at organised march was made whatsoever , but by the time the Croats , both soldiers and civilians , had passed the road junction … leading to Bleiburg , they had been stripped of everything they possessed , including animals , carts , bicycles , food and personal belongings etc . |
| 6 | At Wharram Percy they had been rebuilt of perishable materials — wood , wattle , turf — in almost every generation , only later having substantial foundations . |
| 7 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 8 | They had been accused of deceiving the Department of Trade and Industry by claiming machine tools destined for Iraq had peaceful purposes when they were specifically designed to make fuses for shells . |
| 9 | They had been accused of involvement in a number of attacks on targets connected with European and US interests in Amman in 1990-91 . |
| 10 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 11 | However , within each word order condition subjects recalled more words from the passage when they had been informed of its title . |