Example sentences of "had [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dierdriu said gently , ‘ Had you been half siblings , something might have been permitted . |
| 2 | ‘ Had it been normal parents sitting in court , would they have been ordered to pay £7,000 ? |
| 3 | Had it been new information , it would have been presented independently in the predicate , because this is where new information normally occurs in English : Heseltine has been appointed as Minister of the Environment . |
| 4 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |
| 5 | When the pressgang came to Aberdeen last year ’ ( had it been last year ? |
| 6 | Had it been any night other than Wednesday , he would have staggered out . |
| 7 | And er , it was on the shed roof , on the apex like that and it just had it 's front paws over like that so I quick , got the camera and through the back bedroom window erm , took a picture of it on the shed roof like that , it was just looking ! |
| 8 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 9 | It had it 's last play blinking months ago that ! |