Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 2 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 3 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 4 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 5 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 6 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 7 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 8 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 9 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 10 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 11 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 12 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 13 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 14 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 15 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 16 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 19 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 20 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 21 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 22 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 23 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 24 | But her jaw had locked , as if she had been bitten by an animal that kills its prey by robbing it of the ability to eat or hunt , pant or lick , or even howl . |
| 25 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 26 | She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices ! |
| 27 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 28 | Her sleep was black and absolute , as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit . |
| 29 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 30 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |