Example sentences of "[noun sg] if she have been " in BNC.

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1 Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life .
2 Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded .
3 That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children .
4 Not without difficulty she glanced at her watch , and would have sighed with relief if she had been less squashed .
5 One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married .
6 I 'd probably still be lying in a dazed heap in the corner if she had been — I 'm a definite sucker for green eyes . ’
7 She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light .
8 Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go .
9 Katherine Colgrave 's lawyers claim she only discovered in 1984 that she may have escaped disability if she 'd been correctly diagnosed and treated soon after birth .
10 Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship .
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