Example sentences of "you had been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 2 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 3 | If you had been a young person at the beginning of this century , you may have been in ‘ in service ’ , working as a maid or servant for a wealthy family . |
| 4 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 5 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |