Example sentences of "[coord] had [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 2 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 3 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 4 | Would there be something going on , or had she been superseded by the scrawny one from Holywood ? |
| 5 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 6 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 7 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 8 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
| 9 | Have you ever had to , have you ever had to actually , have you had any major things that have gone wrong in the house or had it been okay ? |
| 10 | Or had it been triumph ? |
| 11 | Or had it been done deliberately ? |
| 12 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 13 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 14 | Or had it been so unimaginable ? |
| 15 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |
| 16 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 17 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 18 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 19 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 20 | But had he really been ill or had he been shamming , crafty sick to give himself extra time in Leeds ? |
| 21 | Or had he been too cautious , too frightened of his increasing visibility ? |
| 22 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 23 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 24 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 25 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 26 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 27 | Rozanov had not seen the man , in any form , nor had he been aware of speaking those words . |
| 28 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 29 | Nor had he been idle in Salzburg : he had written two duos for violin and viola to help out his fellow-composer Michael Haydn , who was in the service of the archbishop . |
| 30 | Nor had she been able to comprehend what was going on . |