Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I suppose it might have been serious had I been at Low Birk Hatt on my own with no help when that virus struck me down . |
| 2 | Had I been at Spithead , I should certainly have joined the mutineers . |
| 3 | Had I been in contact with officials of other governments ? |
| 4 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 5 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 6 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 7 | Had they been in vogue in 1951 , the words perestroika and glasnost might have been used by observers . |
| 8 | How long had they been in Orkney ? |
| 9 | Curtseying was not a country custom , and besides , even had they been in town , she was n't sure she should to one of her brother 's friends , whom she 'd known since he was a boy . |
| 10 | Sandy McGlashan — why had he been off work that Tuesday ? |
| 11 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 12 | Had he been in love with her before she had married ? |
| 13 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 14 | Had he been in children 's homes ? |
| 15 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 16 | The question was , had it been to Romania and back ? |
| 17 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |
| 18 | In these circumstances MacDonald could not be treated as a cast-off glove — even had it been in Baldwin 's nature to do so . |
| 19 | The SEC 's Rule 14e-3 , which derives validity from s.14(e) of the SEA 1934 , forms the basis of insider trading liability for tender offers , or , in British parlance , take-overs , and would probably , had it been in operation , covered the trading activities of both Newman and Chiarella . |
| 20 | Had it been in administration , we would have put forward to our budget . |