Example sentences of "they been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had they been bleeding Colonel Swanton or Lord Heptonstall dry ? ’ |
| 2 | Had they been jealous , thirty years ago in Oxford , of the young Phoebe 's special status ? |
| 3 | Another international , who preferred to remain anonymous , claimed that two thirds of the top 24 would have gone on strike had they been asked , and that a players ' union will soon be formed to help deal with matters such as prize money , rankings , training and selection . |
| 4 | Another international , who preferred to remain anonymous , claimed that two thirds of the top 24 would have gone on strike had they been asked , and that a players ' union will soon be formed to help deal with matters such as prize money , rankings , training and selection . |
| 5 | Another panel member said they been ‘ lamentably under-informed ’ . |
| 6 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Some of them do n't look too good , not after they been burned like that , specially when it 's their features what have gone . |
| 9 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 10 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 11 | Neither had they been given extra hay the night before . |
| 12 | Have they been found yet ? ’ |
| 13 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 14 | Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place , would they have reacted differently ? |
| 15 | Why , he thought , had they been unable to abandon the film , to leave it without an ending , as a memorial to her death ? |
| 16 | None of the patients interviews said they would have taken paracetamol had they been aware of this danger . |
| 17 | Yet the Laboulbeniales seem a likely group to solicit as mercenaries against our arthropod adversaries , so why have they been ignored as potential agents of biological control ? |
| 18 | Bearing in mind the price of these volumes , they would be more practical had they been divided between subjects . |
| 19 | Those in the Conservative Party who were outraged by her dismissal and the way in which it was effected have not forgotten — nor have they been reassured by the motions of the administration . |
| 20 | ‘ What had they been working on ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ How long have they been gone ? ’ |
| 22 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 23 | They 'd look at me in surprise , so enthralled had they been . |
| 24 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 25 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 26 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 27 | So 15 of the chosen 30 have a very modest international background — and this going into tests against Australia , the World Cup holders , and South Africa , who rather fancy that they would have won it had they been invited . |
| 28 | Had they been paying her : A £1 million a year B Pounds 200,000 a year C £350,000 for three years ? |
| 29 | Their imprimatur also gave the elements which could be interpreted as letting the auditors off the hook , such as the question of lessening liability exposure , more credibility than would otherwise have happened had they been drafted by auditors . |
| 30 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |