Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] he have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 2 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 3 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 4 | He knew that she and Massingham had worked together before when he had been a newly promoted divisional detective inspector and she a sergeant . |
| 5 | Upon his return to Saragossa , El Cid was treated as a hero in exactly the same way as if he had been a Moslem . |
| 6 | Hazel and Blackberry turned and scuttled up the nearest run as though he had been a ferret . |
| 7 | He looks as though he 's been a footballer in his time . |