Example sentences of "if she had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 2 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 3 | I mean it would be worse if she had been — hurt — first . ’ |
| 4 | If she had been , she would have married and had babies by now . |
| 5 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 6 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 7 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 8 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 9 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 10 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 11 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 12 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 13 | And when she said , ‘ I might need to , and then I 'd just walk out , ’ Agnes was round the table as if she had been shot there and , holding her sister by the shoulders , she cried at her , ‘ Do n't do that , Jessie ! |
| 14 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 15 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 16 | Not without difficulty she glanced at her watch , and would have sighed with relief if she had been less squashed . |
| 17 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She wondered if she had been as particular when she 'd lived here . |
| 20 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 21 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |
| 26 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 27 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 28 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 29 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 30 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |