Example sentences of "and they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had been in Cornwall , the other in Monmouthshire , and they had been loaded with margarine and tinned peaches respectively . |
| 2 | The sections had been hard at work since 0600 hours , and they had been very successful at keeping all the teams on the road . |
| 3 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 4 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 5 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 6 | And they had been good years . |
| 7 | They had stayed to eat with the family of Chola 's former husband , and they had been feasted with raksi and rice and the meat of the sacrificial goat . |
| 8 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 9 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 10 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 11 | They told him that all had gone well until , between Roxburgh town and the castle , before which they were demonstrating , seeking to decoy Balliol , by chance an English party had come up behind them , presumably having ridden over the Border and by Kelso ford , and they had been trapped . |
| 12 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 13 | Midday meal would be at 1230 hours , and they had been told they were excused duties for the remainder of the day . |
| 14 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 15 | The first seems less likely since the pilots were experienced and known to be very competent and they had been well briefed ( by professional weather service ) on the ACA arrival and approach procedures . |
| 16 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 17 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 18 | It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running . |
| 19 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 20 | She was special — and they had been good together . |
| 21 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 22 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 23 | Twice he had been torpedoed , and each time he had finally been picked up ; then on PQ 17 , when the destroyers left and they had been ordered to scatter … |
| 24 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 25 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 26 | The question they had to answer was quite simple , and they had been told by the seneschal that he had been told that it was an empirical question , not a purely theoretical one , though he had also said he found this difficult to believe , as even the mysterious powers and forces which moved the Wars themselves could not control such absolutes . |
| 27 | There were things to be done , and they had been done , and everything was inexplicable . |
| 28 | There was a timber control and they had been there , controlling him . |
| 29 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 30 | Previously , Bulgarian citizens had been allowed to own at most one apartment , a country home and a garage , and they had been allowed to sell their property only at fixed prices through the local state authorities . |