Example sentences of "[conj] if she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 2 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 3 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 4 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 5 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 6 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 7 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 8 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 9 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 10 | If she had been cheerful , she would grow sad , and if she had been depressed , she would grow bad-tempered . |
| 11 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 12 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 13 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 15 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 16 | She felt as much for that girl as if she had been her own flesh and blood . |
| 17 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 18 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 19 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 20 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 21 | Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot . |
| 22 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |