Example sentences of "if she [verb] [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been a man . |
| 2 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 3 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 4 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 7 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 8 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 9 | He cut another slice and then he leaned across and buttered it for her , as if she had been a child . |
| 10 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 11 | In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in . |
| 12 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 13 | The prosecution alleges that after being beaten , a sherry bottle was used on the body of Mrs McMullen to make it look as if she had been a victim of a sexual attack . |
| 14 | If she had been the offspring of drunken parents in Scotland Road , or born with a hair-lip like Ma Tang 's daughter , there might be some excuse for feeling as she did . |
| 15 | In the end , he simply stared at her , shaking his head as if she had been the one to ask the question . |
| 16 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 17 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 18 | If she had been an adult the position would have been different . |