Example sentences of "[pron] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 2 | Why then had nothing been done to change this long-standing nonsense ? |
| 3 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 4 | I been trying to think all the way back , but I ca n't figure it out . |
| 5 | ‘ I have encountered many species in my time , Fakrid , ’ he concluded , ‘ but never have I been forced to endure such unfounded bombast ! ’ |
| 6 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
| 7 | I think really I need to say that that someone been creating happens to be that they 're not sold off and |
| 8 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 9 | Had she been asked to account for her day Elisabeth Danziger would have been unable to do so . |
| 10 | Who had she been trying to impress ? |
| 11 | Never before had she been forced to analyse what she did . |
| 12 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 13 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |
| 14 | If so , the Deverils were still proscribed so why had she been allowed to enter England and , undoubtedly , to travel to Godstowe , a sensitive place where a former royal mistress had been incarcerated . |
| 15 | Nor , if the enquiring look on her face was anything to go by , had she been informed to expect her . |
| 16 | In terms of your inquiries where have you been trying to get information from ? |
| 17 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 18 | The demonstrators held banners demanding both the secession of Georgia from the Soviet Union and the full integration of the Abkhazian republic , which had itself been seeking to secede from Georgia and to resume the union republican status it had enjoyed from 1921 until 1931 . |
| 19 | Or has democracy itself been adapted to accommodate earlier suspicions and hostility ? |
| 20 | we been trying to fight that but |
| 21 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 22 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 23 | And eight ( eight ! ) grandchildren , though she had not herself been tempted to enter the local ‘ Glamorous Grandmother ’ contest . |
| 24 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 25 | Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously . |
| 26 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 27 | Neither have they been told to test prisoners for drugs . |
| 28 | I doubt that these young men , had they been allowed to form their own world view and their own understanding of national history , would have voted for this bloodshed . |
| 29 | Had they been set free any nearer they would almost certainly have found their way back for a free meal of milk and green bananas at the orang-utans ' tea party . |
| 30 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |