Example sentences of "if she 'd been " in BNC.
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1 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
2 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
3 | Jane reflected that if she 'd been enormous , with masses of stomach and bust up front , Lajos might have thought twice about bashing her . |
4 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
5 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
6 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
7 | She fled home on the underground , scolding herself for being such a coward , it could all be over now if she 'd been sensible . |
8 | But even if she 'd been fully clothed the chance of escape was gone before it arrived . |
9 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
10 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
11 | Dad did n't object to him nosing around but I wondered what Mum would have said if she 'd been home ; she was out cleaning at the fish shop . |
12 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
13 | His hands slid from her breasts as if she 'd been greased . |
14 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
15 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
16 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
17 | Ruth seemed to lose her breath , as if she 'd been punched . |
18 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
19 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
20 | Ace felt as if she 'd been struck . |
21 | " Lust " as Lindsey would have said if she 'd been there . |
22 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
23 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
24 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
25 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
26 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
27 | Mala sprang from her sear as if she 'd been electro-jolted . |
28 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
29 | If she 'd been there , no matter how quietly , someone would remember . |
30 | The feel of his warm flesh under her finger gave her such an odd surge of panic that she retracted her hand as if she 'd been burnt . |