Example sentences of "[noun prp] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the earlier turf-level ‘ catch ’ by Inzamam-ul-Haq off Gower been wrongly disallowed ? |
| 2 | Had Stirling been more cautious , he would have followed the route taken by Cooper , Sadler and Taxis , and eventually would have met up with his brother Bill . |
| 3 | Had Kingsley been ill , the performance would have been cancelled . |
| 4 | erm The reason why we moved the amendment on this is er Jim been and that has , we started to query the figures I did n't get involved in the all this week and th people like Jim , David loads of my attention and the whole er exercise was a fraud they 're all bum figures and when I checked , the figures I have checked here are done by a senior officer when I showed 'im what stuff was being wrong . |
| 5 | Has Jim been in yet ? |
| 6 | It found that had Costa Rica been consulted , its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858 . |
| 7 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 8 | Had Trent been Miguelito he would have lain in wait in the jungle by the catamaran . |
| 9 | And how had Brampton been hanged ? |
| 10 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 11 | What had Simeon been promised he would see before he died ? |
| 12 | What , he wondered indignantly , had Olga been thinking of to countenance this ? |
| 13 | What had Marcus been dragged into by that tart ? |
| 14 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 15 | Three out of four of these accidents fix on the properties of individual men as decisive variables directing the course of events : had Churchill been a less charismatic politician Britain might have given up her fight against Germany ; had Franco permitted an assault on Gibraltar it would probably have fallen ; and if Mussolini had not ‘ taken it into his head ’ to invade Greece , Hitler would have moved into Russia . |
| 16 | Had Germany been unified in 1989 , it would have stayed top . |
| 17 | erm , Debs been completed . |
| 18 | And what 's Popsey been doing while you were at the park ? |
| 19 | Why has Tod been frittering my life away like this ? |
| 20 | Not only had Cora-Beth been incredibly patient and understanding about his reluctance to become engaged these past two years , but during that period of his life she had somehow made it possible for them to renew their old easy friendship . |
| 21 | Only this week , Lord Chief Justice Taylor been commenting on the need to look at sentencing and I think this case highlights that need is very , very urgent indeed . |
| 22 | ‘ Has Sarah been told ? ’ |
| 23 | since when has Stratford on Avon been south ? |
| 24 | ‘ Has Penumbra been in touch ? ’ |
| 25 | Had Jonah been less indigestible how can we be sure that the whale would have expelled him ? |
| 26 | And I 've got to go , unless we go to Tuesday been to the dentist |
| 27 | So what have George and Marie been skimping on ? |
| 28 | Questioner ( who was cheered ) : Why had Sainsburys been allowed to develop alongside the railway at Meole Brace without providing a station ? |
| 29 | So pleased had Irving been that , in congratulation , he had shaken her foot … |
| 30 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |