Example sentences of "if [pron] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 2 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 3 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 4 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I could have got action like that if I 'd been a count , ’ she mused . |
| 6 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 8 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 9 | If she 'd been a man . |
| 10 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 11 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 12 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 13 | He cut another slice and then he leaned across and buttered it for her , as if she had been a child . |
| 14 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 15 | The prosecution alleges that after being beaten , a sherry bottle was used on the body of Mrs McMullen to make it look as if she had been a victim of a sexual attack . |
| 16 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 17 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 18 | If she had been an adult the position would have been different . |
| 19 | And I still feel that you 're to blame for this : if you had been a wife to him he would certainly not have had to seek comfort elsewhere . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I did n't really believe it , but business is n't great at the moment , and if you had been the person concerned … ’ |
| 21 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 22 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 23 | If you have been a victim of a crime do not assume that it can not happen again . |
| 24 | If you have been the victim of any kind of personal attack , call the police immediately . |
| 25 | We if we 'd been a minute later we 'd have |
| 26 | If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller . |
| 27 | If the three arrows had all had flights … if there 'd been no wind … |
| 28 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 29 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 30 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |