Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would there be something going on , or had she been superseded by the scrawny one from Holywood ? |
| 2 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 3 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 4 | Or had it been done deliberately ? |
| 5 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 6 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 7 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 8 | But had he really been ill or had he been shamming , crafty sick to give himself extra time in Leeds ? |
| 9 | Or have we been addressing the Chairman all along ? |
| 10 | But despite the fact that this series of photographs is considered in New York to be ‘ the perfect comeback to Jeff Koons ’ pornographic photo-paintings of himself and his wife having sex ’ ( Roberta Smith in the International Herald Tribune , their powerful reading as angered response does not come across as it should , nor has it been encouraged . |
| 11 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nor had it been mentioned in Parliament since the previous April , when Hall proposed setting up the Select Committee and holding an international competition . |
| 14 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 15 | Publication of the disclosed material during the recent criminal appeal hearing , even had it been total , would no more rid it of its prima facie immunity than had it been aired in disciplinary or criminal proceedings brought against the police officers concerned , the situation expressly envisaged in Makanjuola 's case . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said , ‘ she has only come in to die , but I think that had she been removed before , much of her suffering would have been saved . ’ |
| 17 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 18 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 20 | Those in the Conservative Party who were outraged by her dismissal and the way in which it was effected have not forgotten — nor have they been reassured by the motions of the administration . |
| 21 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 22 | And has she been cleared o |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So erm w if Had he been doing digging graves when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 25 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 26 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 27 | David had told her to trust him , but had he been implying that everything would be all right and that their relationship would continue ? |
| 28 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 29 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |