Example sentences of "[verb] they been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they been swallowed into the warm fields ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What had they been looking for ? |
| 4 | and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the price of these volumes , they would be more practical had they been divided between subjects . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage . |
| 8 | But why had they been sitting on a table ? |
| 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 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 11 | The chief executive of South Africa 's Atomic Energy Corporation , Dr W Stumpf , said there was no reason to believe the bombs would not have exploded had they been delivered in anger . |
| 12 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 13 | I mean how have they been seen by local mu community ? |
| 14 | Experience was quickly to show that these conditions were not forthcoming ; neither have they been realized throughout the post-war period . |
| 15 | How far have they been influenced by the recent developments in the economic analysis ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 18 | Have they been going at you again ? ’ |
| 19 | I mean have have they been found on the in the flats ? is there is dealing does de dealing go on ? |
| 20 | Have they been playing as a strike pair for the reserves ? ? |