Example sentences of "if they had be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not think it necessary to tell him that the University administration had been obliged to circulate all members of staff with a memorandum asking them , if they had been on strike , to volunteer the information ( since there was no other way of finding out ) so that their pay could be docked . |
| 2 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
| 3 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 4 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 5 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |