Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been at Spithead , I should certainly have joined the mutineers . |
| 2 | And I suppose it might have been serious had I been at Low Birk Hatt on my own with no help when that virus struck me down . |
| 3 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 4 | Where had I been to ? |
| 5 | Where had I been before that ? |
| 6 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 7 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
| 8 | Had I been in contact with officials of other governments ? |
| 9 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 10 | ‘ And whatever the way of it , had I been in the Lord Owen 's place , with my chief enemy thus presented naked into my hand , I doubt if I could have resisted the temptation . |
| 11 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 12 | Gerald come in and he said you been on the piss already ? |
| 13 | It may be that Britain has overemphasised the potential benefits of free trade ; that she has actually benefited from the protectionist philosophy which permeates the EEC ; that being a member of a cohesive new power bloc is what has counted ; that the ‘ fight ’ with the Americans over agricultural matters is a case in point ; that had she been on her own , Britain would have been trampled over by her cousins on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 14 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
| 15 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 16 | He had expected her back by midnight at the latest , judging by the phone call and the length of the concert , so where had she been until two in the morning ? |
| 17 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 18 | Had she been in any way party to that act ? |
| 19 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 20 | ‘ How long had you been at the Jenner Clinic ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Had you been to the spot before ? ’ |
| 22 | how long had you been in the police force ? |
| 23 | Had we been at the house of my parents we would have shared the fate of the rest of the family … |
| 24 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 25 | So we did n't buy very , little utility furniture , the only utility furniture we 've got is , it used to be a bedroom suite up in that second bedroom , we 've still got the bed of that , that was utility , but had we been in the market we would of bought utility because it was very good , some of it was really good if you looked around and erm , you know , choose your furniture , it was very good |
| 26 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 27 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 28 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |