Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd already been away since I was nine , ’ Philip retorted . |
| 3 | He 'd never had a serious illness since a bout of pneumonia in childhood , and he 'd never been less than whole . |
| 4 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 5 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 6 | Phillips what a wonderful ball that almost turned out be there because er Crosby had it not been a better defender would have been in behind Whitlow . |
| 7 | One of the group decided enough was enough and stayed put . |
| 8 | The bonanza went on until the church thought enough was enough and so on a Sunday evening in August , a concerted effort was made and strong sermons were preached from every pulpit against bee wine and its evil effects . |
| 9 | The turnabout Howard and Mark conjured up was more than I could have expected . |
| 10 | The daughter of a warehouseman , she was 26 years old in 1910 , so had presumably been more than ten years in the trade . |
| 11 | That had all been more than two years before . |
| 12 | They had all been there when Moran read out the telegram . |
| 13 | The signs had all been there if only she 'd had the gumption to read them . |
| 14 | This had obviously been there since manufacture and had caused the blockages I had blamed on sand . |
| 15 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 16 | The word had not been there when she left that morning . |
| 17 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 18 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 19 | La Marche was a huge fief held of the Duke of Aquitaine , but the Counts had always been more or less independent . |
| 20 | He had always been there and when she was little she had worshipped him with all the adulation of any little girl for a big , brave , older brother . |
| 21 | ‘ You must go , ’ he said , as if nobody had ever been there but him . |
| 22 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 23 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 24 | It was a single , narrow affair with a wafer-thin mattress that sagged in the middle and was covered by a brown woollen blanket that had probably been there since the hotel was built . |
| 25 | Jezrael almost fell over a gee-node that had n't been here when her memories had taped the place . |
| 26 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 27 | The First Lady had n't been there or Mrs Goreng would have been reintroduced to her . |
| 28 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 29 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 30 | From The Childhood , and even more from some conversations I recorded with the poet 's second cousin ( T. Trehame Thomas ) in 1966–7 , there are hints that Mrs Thomas 's family proudly preserved the memory of Alderman Townsend and his descendants : the Tedmans at a vicarage in Much Birch , near Hereford ; another great-uncle at Limpley Stoke near Bath with an interest in the development of Edward 's French grammar ; and many more who had either been abroad and returned to moderate affluence in the Border counties ( according to Mr T. T. Thomas 's recollections ) or had settled abroad in Africa or in the USA , like Edward 's aunt Margaret . |