They knew they had been rumbled.

他们知道自己已经被识破了。

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They had been primed with good advice.

他们事先得到了高人指点。

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They had been exhorted to action.

已经告诫他们采取行动。

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Kristen Iversen says he did become rich, but not until they had been married for seven years and had two children.

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And in fact I don't remember talking very much about the war though they had been in the war.

不过，说实话，我们并不经常,谈战争，虽然他们参加过二战。

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Up until then they had been using the old stadium, which now has been turned into a park.

在那之前，他们一直使用旧体育馆；现在旧体育馆已经成为一个公园了。

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They had been held on suspicion of manslaughter and an offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act.

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Another caller said they had been blamed by their mother for their abusive father's imprisonment.

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They had been featured in previous investigations into other people, but were not themselves under surveillance.

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