Sentence examples for had been yes from inspiring English sources

As the teachers finished, Ms. Owen asked the group, "Are you thinking about what color palette you'd like to use while we're blabbering at you?" I had been, yes.

(If the answer was "no", the scrawler would tease the recipient for thinking that they might have been about to get asked out. In my case, this happened a couple of times, even when my answer had been "yes").

The nub of the case was this question: "Are isolated human genes and the comparison of their sequences patentable things?"Until now, the answer had been "Yes".

"I suppose he may have been, yes".

Gardner replied: "It should have been, yes".

"His direction has been, yes, public safety," Ms. Gibbs said.

In principle, the answer for years has been yes.

The answer has been yes in virtually every case.

I think the answer would have been yes".

"It may have been, yes," Mr. Donovan said.

To my old professor, the answer to that would have been yes.