Example sentences of "had we been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never had we been so pleased to see a house and a coal fire , and to have a warm welcome ! |
| 2 | How many times on a visit to families in the neighbourhood , before being offered a cup of tea , had we been taken around a house — ‘ The grand tour again , ’ sighed Dad — to admire knocked-through rooms , cunning cupboards and bunkbeds , showers , coal bunkers and greenhouses . |
| 3 | Had we been as free from the fetters of manpower planning as Field when we negotiated the new deal the problem could have been solved overnight . |
| 4 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 5 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 6 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 7 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 8 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 9 | Had we been at the house of my parents we would have shared the fate of the rest of the family … |
| 10 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 11 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 12 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 13 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 14 | What had we been doing all these years if not promoting fitness , well-being , stamina , strength , and mobility ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Had we been Lexie would n't have died . |
| 17 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 18 | Yes , had we been a little brighter , we were going to ring up and take Amy out yesterday we were also aah , and we struggled into Bromley and eh that was it . |
| 19 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 20 | Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there . |