Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 2 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 3 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 4 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 5 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 6 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 7 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 8 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 9 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 10 | She had not been in that position . |
| 11 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 12 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 13 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 14 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 15 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 16 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |
| 17 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 19 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 20 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 21 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 22 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 23 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 24 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 26 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 27 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 28 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 29 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 30 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |