Example sentences of "[conj] if it [verb] been [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream .
2 I used a textured cream fabric as a backing , to add a little interest , although if it had been too heavy it would have distracted one 's eye from the heart pattern itself .
3 than if it had been so much inert luggage .
4 But if it had been neither particularly interesting nor mysterious , it had certainly been bloody .
5 She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline .
6 It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination .
7 For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday .
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