Example sentences of "you had been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 2 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 3 | The S.M.O. said you had been a very good night special in Hope . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 6 | And I still feel that you 're to blame for this : if you had been a wife to him he would certainly not have had to seek comfort elsewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ You could have got the information for nothing if you had been a little more persuasive , a little more patient . |
| 8 | It would have been a different matter if you had been a permanent assistant in the practice . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I did n't really believe it , but business is n't great at the moment , and if you had been the person concerned … ’ |
| 12 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |