Example sentences of "[adv] if i 'd [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 2 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 3 | ‘ So if I 'd been queer , what happened this morning would n't have ? ’ |
| 4 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 5 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 6 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 7 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 8 | ‘ They would n't have taken 'im even if I 'd been willing to part with 'im , me being a widow . |
| 9 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 11 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |