Example sentences of "[subord] it had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 2 | If it had been Piphros , it was encouraging . |
| 3 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 4 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 5 | Whereas if it had been standing room , we really would have been standing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd have been more excited if it had been Shirley Bassey , ’ Miss Horrocks , 28 , tells me . |
| 7 | In Mr Shaw 's view , his Bill , if it had been law , would have prevented the Maxwell fraud and the problems with BCCI , as well as saving billions of pounds lost to the Exchequer every year because of tax haven activity . |
| 8 | The MP behind the bill says if it had been law then , her life would have been saved . |
| 9 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 10 | ‘ Even if it had been syphilis — why could you not return to this girl you love ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Just think if it had been polio or something like that . ’ |
| 12 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 13 | She would have been soaked if it had been water . |
| 14 | ‘ If it had been Jonathan I should n't have heard him ; he and Sarah were like cats about the house . ’ |
| 15 | Now if it had been Viola that had died … |
| 16 | If it had been Viola . |
| 17 | And then there was another interesting thought : if it had been Viola as well . |
| 18 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 19 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 20 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |
| 21 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |
| 22 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 23 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 24 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 25 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 26 | That implied being carefree , and she felt as though it had been decades since she had felt that way , and it had nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan . |
| 27 | Yet all was glitter in this room , as it had been glitter two months ago when she had been so happy . |
| 28 | As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna . |