Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Had she been a bit mad ? |
| 10 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |
| 11 | Had she been a little too pleased at his apparent pleasure at seeing her ? |
| 12 | Had she been a complete fool ? she wondered . |
| 13 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr in December nineteen eighty eight , how long had you been a firearms officer , or tactical advisor ? |
| 17 | And excuse me , for how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 18 | And how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 21 | Had he been a man of no imagination and of totally strict principles , Joe would never have considered steaming the letter open . |
| 22 | Wilshere said that had he been a juror in this case , he would have voted for sending Field to trial ; his conduct had been cruel and brutal in the extreme and ‘ the violence to this poor creature in her diseased and irritable state ’ increased the symptoms and hastened her death . |
| 23 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 24 | In the case of Monsieur Blondel , the first two categories may safely be eliminated : had he been a boy , he would have been identified in the livret as a ‘ page ’ , as were other boys who sang in the ballets . |
| 25 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 26 | Had he been an influence ? |
| 27 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 28 | Had it been a dream ? |
| 29 | Had it been a nightmare ? |
| 30 | Had it been a real train the sound would have faded off towards the west — away from the hostel instead , and we could now hear the engine as well ; it came towards the hostel over the non-existent harbour branch and clattered to a stop , perhaps at one of the wharves . |