Example sentences of "a [noun sg] had [pron] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 2 | Not for a moment had she been able to deceive herself that she was anything but bad , truly bad . |
| 3 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 4 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 5 | Gustave would have made me into a hermit had he been able : the hermit of Paris . |
| 6 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |