Example sentences of "[pers pn] been [verb] [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I been trying to think all the way back , but I ca n't figure it out . |
| 4 | ‘ I have encountered many species in my time , Fakrid , ’ he concluded , ‘ but never have I been forced to endure such unfounded bombast ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Had she been asked to account for her day Elisabeth Danziger would have been unable to do so . |
| 7 | Who had she been trying to impress ? |
| 8 | Never before had she been forced to analyse what she did . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor , if the enquiring look on her face was anything to go by , had she been informed to expect her . |
| 13 | In terms of your inquiries where have you been trying to get information from ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | we been trying to fight that but |
| 16 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Neither have they been told to test prisoners for drugs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 24 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 25 | Had it been allowed to thrive , the whole sad subsequent history of Ireland might well have been different but , alas , it was not . |
| 26 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
| 27 | What had he been trying to tell her ? |
| 28 | ( Had he been permitted to use these qualities , who can tell how different the fate of Germany , and all Europe , might have been ? ) |
| 29 | He 's such , has he been meant to paint many of this old man ? |
| 30 | What Ronnie might have achieved , had he been allowed to race on completely even terms , is a matter of pure speculation . |