Example sentences of "you had [been] [art] [adj] " 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 . |
6 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
7 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |