Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been a little less successful in catching chub or , worse , met with a complete blank , then Heaven knows if I would have continued specimen hunting . |
| 2 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 3 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 4 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 5 | Had I been an IRA man , I could have pulled out my little Luger and shot him dead — a thought so unnerving that the next day I wrote to his private secretary to suggest improved security . |
| 6 | I asked what had happened — ‘ Had their been a shuffle ? — or had one of us died in the night ? ’ |
| 7 | Dr. Clarke had himself been a surveyor in the town in 1765 : he also cultivated the art of perspective drawing , examples of which can be seen in the plans he drew for Whitaker 's History of Manchester of 1765 and 1771 . |
| 8 | Ratzinger had himself been a seemingly progressive young conciliar peritus . |
| 9 | His connection with the School went back even further , for he had himself been a pupil , first entering in 1870 when Hamilton was Headmaster . |
| 10 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 11 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 12 | Defending , Graham Robertson , advocate , claimed his client had himself been a victim of child sex abuse . |
| 13 | Although I admire Mrs Dinwiddie 's concern for her family , I remind her that had she been a mother less than 80 years ago , when there were no modern crop chemicals , animal health products , food preservatives , human vaccines and modern medicines it is unlikely that her complete family would have survived childhood . |
| 14 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , is warmly liked and admired , but will need to overcome some reservations about whether , had she been a man , she would have won the Cabinet place on intellect alone . |
| 15 | A female employee was offensively treated by two male colleagues , but at first her claim was rejected because the industrial tribunal felt that , had she been a man , she would still have been harassed , although the specific nature of the unpleasantness might have been different . |
| 16 | Had she been a bit mad ? |
| 17 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |
| 18 | Had she been a little too pleased at his apparent pleasure at seeing her ? |
| 19 | Had she been a complete fool ? she wondered . |
| 20 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 21 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 22 | He mastered his rage , dropped his hand , said , his voice as indifferent as hers , but the feeling beneath it deep indeed , ‘ I should have thrashed sense into you long ago , Daughter , as I would have done had you been a boy . |
| 23 | Mr in December nineteen eighty eight , how long had you been a firearms officer , or tactical advisor ? |
| 24 | And excuse me , for how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 25 | And how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 26 | Yes , had we been a little brighter , we were going to ring up and take Amy out yesterday we were also aah , and we struggled into Bromley and eh that was it . |
| 27 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 28 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 29 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 30 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |