Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] been [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been his wife I would n't have hesitated . |
| 2 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 3 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 4 | And I told Heathcliff to his face that he could never have made Catherine happy , if she had been his wife . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if you 'd been my daughter , you 'd have felt the rod ! ’ |
| 6 | But if we 'd been my family |
| 7 | ‘ If it 'd been my missus , I 'd 've been relieved that someone else was taking an interest . |
| 8 | If it 'd been my box yeah it 's eight three . |
| 9 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 10 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 11 | If it had been your hoop , it would 've count . |
| 12 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 13 | If it had been his daughter he would have tried to have stopped it . |
| 14 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
| 15 | It was n't suggested to Mr when he gave evidence that there was another man at the flat that night , I am told that if it had been his answer would have been an unequivocal no . |
| 16 | It was as if he had been her protector , instead of the very opposite … |
| 17 | Asked if he 'd been her boyfriend for long . |