Example sentences of "children had [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 2 | If the children had been with us they 'd have been in the disco , fortunately soundproofed , every night . |
| 3 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 4 | Their children had been in care for eight months . |
| 5 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |