Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pers pn] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 2 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose I could have got action like that if I 'd been a count , ’ she mused . |
| 4 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |
| 5 | And Armistice Day is the best and brightest memory of all because it had been a war to end all wars and no one would ever allow such a thing to happen again … |
| 6 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 7 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 8 | The briefing was the same as it had been every day since he was born . |
| 9 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 10 | The ritual was the same as it had been the day before , adjusting the aerial , then , as he turned the tuner to the sound of whistles , crackles and snatches of foreign music , he said , ‘ Speak to me , London , ’ and , in obedience , it did . |