Example sentences of "if [noun] [verb] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thoroughly deserved a draw last night and , if luck had been on their side , they might even have won the game . |
| 2 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 3 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 4 | If Jesus had been in your class for drama , who would he have chosen to work with in a pair ? |
| 5 | She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more . |
| 6 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |