Example sentences of "they had [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Reagan , they had been the chief cause all along . |
| 2 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 3 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 4 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 5 | They had been the more surprised when , at the age of 32 , she had married Sir Henry Berowne , apparently for less obvious qualities , and had given him two sons . |
| 6 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 7 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 8 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 9 | The empty dishes , china , and uneaten food had been taken away for examination , so the sight and smell were somewhat more palatable than they had been the day before . |
| 10 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 11 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 12 | They only possessions they had were the travel-weary clothes they stood up in . |
| 13 | The only protection they had was the car itself . |