Example sentences of "[prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the farm butter , it is being borne away by the purchasers in the great baskets which look as if they might have been used by the Scarlet Pimpernel to smuggle refugee aristos out of Paris . |
| 2 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 3 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 4 | The delicate tumbler was out of place in his heavy hand ; he looked as if he would have been more comfortable carrying a bottle of beer . |
| 5 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
| 6 | Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it . |
| 7 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 8 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 9 | The label on the bottle bore a picture of Dr MacLaren , who looked as if he might have been personal physician to Mr Gladstone . |
| 10 | Said reprovingly because George looked as if he might have been following the lesson . |
| 11 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 12 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 13 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 14 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 15 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 16 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |