Example sentences of "have [pron] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 2 | What benefit has there been from the Doctus exercise apart from cutting the number of jobs ? |
| 3 | Alternatively , has anybody been on an official leeds bus ? |
| 4 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 5 | Has he been to the show yet ? |
| 6 | Has he been in the , in the loft in the workshop ? |
| 7 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 8 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 9 | ‘ Help , 'ave you been in a war ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 11 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 12 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And whatever the way of it , had I been in the Lord Owen 's place , with my chief enemy thus presented naked into my hand , I doubt if I could have resisted the temptation . |
| 14 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 15 | But we had nobody been for a couple of times , now . |
| 16 | ‘ How long had you been at the Jenner Clinic ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Had you been to the spot before ? ’ |
| 18 | how long had you been in the police force ? |
| 19 | oh who 've you been on the phone to tonight ? |
| 20 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 21 | Had we been at the house of my parents we would have shared the fate of the rest of the family … |
| 22 | So we did n't buy very , little utility furniture , the only utility furniture we 've got is , it used to be a bedroom suite up in that second bedroom , we 've still got the bed of that , that was utility , but had we been in the market we would of bought utility because it was very good , some of it was really good if you looked around and erm , you know , choose your furniture , it was very good |
| 23 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 24 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 25 | These arrangements would not have differed had they been in the Fens , or watching Scandinavia 's hot springs : Johnson went to inspect the landscape he described : Boswell took his landscape , the lumpy Dr Johnson , with him . |
| 26 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 27 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 28 | The crucial question was : where had he been on the eleventh ? |
| 29 | Had he been on the Cardinal 's business or lying in ambush for Irvine ? |
| 30 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |