Example sentences of "if i [verb] 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 . |