Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 2 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 3 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 4 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 5 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 6 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 7 | She watched her mother and daughter talking together and felt a deep hurt , as if she had somehow been the cause of it all . |
| 8 | If she has always been an outgoing person , her grief will probably be expressed in painful episodes of weeping , punctuated by the need to ‘ talk it all out ’ over and over again in great detail to you and to other sympathetic relatives and friends , and you will help her a great deal if you are a patient listener . |
| 9 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 10 | ‘ Also , if you 'd really been a journalist you 'd have known what a ‘ stringer ’ is . |
| 11 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 12 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 13 | Fifteen years … would have been ten if it had n't been a gun … poor creature … |
| 14 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 15 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 16 | Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness . |
| 17 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 18 | The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders . |
| 19 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 20 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 21 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 22 | And as if it had all been a bad dream , Tara wakes up soon after . |
| 23 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 24 | If he had n't been a detective he might have been a historian . |
| 25 | Devoid of animation , lacking the divine spirit of life , if he had not been a priest she would have thought the expression petulant , the top lip folded over the lower one in resentment and self-pity . |