Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 2 | Would there be something going on , or had she been superseded by the scrawny one from Holywood ? |
| 3 | Had she been married to the Prince ? |
| 4 | Had they been swallowed into the warm fields ? |
| 5 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 6 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 7 | Where was he , had he been taken by the constables ? |
| 8 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
| 9 | Francie 's shoes were brilliant with polish but Finn 's were caked with mud — though where could he have been , had he been walking in the pleasure garden by himself , talking to the broken queen and patting the stone lioness on the head ? |
| 10 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 11 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 12 | the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 14 | That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall : had it been repeated on the landing ? |
| 15 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 16 | Had it been closed by the authorities ( I used that word , not ‘ the malais ’ ) ? |