Example sentences of "had [pron] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been Victor Kiam , I would have flogged off the shavers and bought the company . |
| 2 | Déchamps , whose first-round opponents included an official PCF candidate who finished fifth , had himself been PCF mayor from 1965 until March 1990 , but had then been expelled for " racist remarks " ( for which a Paris court fined him F10,000 — US$2,000 — on Jan. 23 ) . |
| 3 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 4 | Had we been Lexie would n't have died . |
| 5 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 6 | The attitudes of the different students interested Paul ; he was popular among them as a tutor , and had there been women among them , might well have become interested in one of these . |
| 7 | When Ali Marwash 's daughter died the custom was followed to the letter since the girl was Ali Marwash 's only child and he cared for her more then he probably would have done had there been sons in the family . |
| 8 | In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged . |
| 9 | Had there been mala fides the court would have had to think of the consequences of that . |
| 10 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 11 | Had there been disease ? |
| 12 | In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the time of delivery was of the essence of this contract , but that this stipulation was waived by the defendant 's requests for delivery after the due date which would have estopped him had there been delivery within the extended time . |
| 14 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 15 | Sankey ( the Lord Chancellor ) and J. H. Thomas survived longer than would have been likely had they been Conservatives . |
| 16 | He points out that even at Poole the two spits are not aligned with each other as one would expect had they been remnants of a former baymouth bar . |
| 17 | Why had he been witness to these events ? |
| 18 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 19 | Had it been April , one could have understood . |
| 20 | Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer . |
| 21 | Or had it been triumph ? |
| 22 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 23 | Had it been Dierdriu 's son ? |
| 24 | Had it been Lady Isabella ? |
| 25 | Had it been Cromwell ? |
| 26 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 27 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 28 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 29 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |