Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 10 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 14 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices ! |
| 20 | Her sleep was black and absolute , as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps if she had been seized by orthodox kidnappers , demanding millions of pounds in ransom , it would have been different . |
| 26 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 27 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 28 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 29 | A pension at the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay is payable for note less than 91 days to the spouse of an officer who dies in service with less than 2 years qualifying service , his widow will receive an annual pension of up to one-half of what his/her pension would have been if he/she had been retired on ill health grounds on the date of his/her death . |
| 30 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |