Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure I would n't have got this far musically had I not been a model . ’ |
| 2 | but think about all the people that we are nice to , I mean look at James , a prime example , have I ever been a bitch to him , never , but I stand up here , when I see him I 'm like oh yeah ha ha , you know , laugh along with his jokes and |
| 3 | Its always been the same ’ ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 16 ) . |
| 4 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 5 | George had himself once been a soldier . |
| 6 | The stability Royal Mail contracts brought to their operators — particularly the smaller ones — enabled them to offer jobs to newly-qualified CPLs in a segment of the industry which traditionally been the first step in an aviation career . |
| 7 | She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you ever been a member ? ’ |
| 9 | Have you ever been the only punter in a big cinema ? |
| 10 | ‘ Have you ever been an alcoholic or anything like that ? ’ |
| 11 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 12 | Had he singled her out or had she simply been the unfortunate rider nearest to him ? |
| 13 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 14 | But perhaps , I wondered , had we not been a bit harsh , a bit premature ? |
| 15 | But the mercury content of the sediment could soon improve if Liverpool Bay follows the pattern of the Manchester Ship canal , where there already been a significant decrease and a corresponding decline of mercury in the estuary 's surface sediment . |
| 16 | The entire episode might have gone unnoticed had there not been a routine monitoring of the base communications tapes last week . |
| 17 | It would have been surprising had there not been a ripple of unease running through the Jenkins family . |
| 18 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 19 | Had it merely been a quick try at getting rid of the intruder ? |
| 20 | Had it just been a dream or had I really shrunk ? |
| 21 | Phillips what a wonderful ball that almost turned out be there because er Crosby had it not been a better defender would have been in behind Whitlow . |
| 22 | It is currently in the final stages of negotiations for a very important order from Malaysia which , had it not been the competitive and effective yard that it now is , it would have had no chance of getting . |
| 23 | Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs . |
| 24 | Far from it , indeed , when one remembered Felix Lark who would have been thought half-witted had he not been a baronet , or Amanda Braithwaite who , no matter what her mother said , had never really learned to read . |
| 25 | Or had it always been an illusion anyway ? |
| 26 | Nor has it always been the chub which were taken from the bottom ; several times the barbel have been on the bottom and the chub hovering above them . |
| 27 | What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration . |