Example sentences of "have [pron] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has she been in hospital herself ? ’ |
| 2 | Neither before , nor after , the second world war , has there been in Great Britain an extreme-right movement comparable to those elsewhere in Europe . |
| 3 | And never once has he been for Instruction . ’ |
| 4 | I mean , has he been in trouble before ? |
| 5 | What has he been in prison for ? " |
| 6 | Has he been in touch with the French government ? |
| 7 | Naylor Massingham grated toughly , and , when she stared at him uncomprehendingly , ‘ I 'm talking about the problem of my cousin ! ’ he rapped , and , his tone suddenly far more aggressive , he barked , ‘ Has he been in touch ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Has he been in touch ? ’ |
| 9 | Has anyone been on telly ? |
| 10 | And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know |
| 11 | It takes me about three to six months to obtain a pair and then I have to have what is on offer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Had I been at Spithead , I should certainly have joined the mutineers . |
| 14 | Had I been in contact with officials of other governments ? |
| 15 | The proliferation of ‘ sweated ’ workshops , and outwork had itself been in part an employer response to the closer regulation of factories during the nineteenth century , an attempt to evade these regulations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 18 | For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began . |
| 19 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 20 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 21 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 22 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 23 | Sandy McGlashan — why had he been off work that Tuesday ? |
| 24 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 25 | Had he been in love with her before she had married ? |
| 26 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 27 | Had he been in children 's homes ? |
| 28 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 29 | The question was , had it been to Romania and back ? |
| 30 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |