Example sentences of "if [pron] had not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 2 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 3 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 4 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 5 | He has pursed his sour lips and guessed my true intentions : if I had not been so bored , I would have sold it . |
| 6 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 7 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 8 | Would Jennifer Jones have won five nominations and one Oscar ( The Song of Bernadette , 1943 ) , if she had not been married to David O Selznick ? |
| 9 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 10 | Ella Bembridge , for once without a cigarette in her mouth , worked as stoutly as the men , and would have forced her way into the building to collect some of Dimity 's treasures if she had not been forbidden to do so by Harold , who had taken charge with all the ready authority of one who had spent his life organising others . |
| 11 | An employer must allow a woman who has complied with the statutory procedures to return to her original job on terms and conditions no less favourable than those which would have applied if she had not been absent . |
| 12 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 13 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 14 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 15 | Mildred would have been absolutely thrilled by it all if she had not been so terrified of the task ahead of her . |
| 16 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 17 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 18 | ( How much would this country and the world have heard even of the Right Honourable Member for Finchley if she had not been backed in the House by that numerical Conservative superiority ? ) |
| 19 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 20 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 21 | The wench could not talk thus if she had not been her master 's bedfellow . |
| 22 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 23 | It was a question Rain would have doubted if she had not been there to hear it . |
| 24 | And if she had not been mistaken … ? |
| 25 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 26 | reinstatement , ie an order that you shall be treated in every respect as if you had not been dismissed ; or |
| 27 | ‘ If you had not been told otherwise , you might think it was all a terrific affectation — this old woman from the Dales with the luminescent skin , the saintly set of the features and the clothes from the pile which even the rag-and-bone man would probably not take … . |
| 28 | Almost identical , if you had not been brought up by Victorine to know that one was good and the other bad : both had wide shop windows displaying shelves of apple tarts , turnovers , puffs ; striped awnings above ; tiled steps . |
| 29 | Before she could think how to respond without sounding defensive he was saying : ‘ You are angry with yourself , remorseful because if you had not been late this thing would never have happened . |
| 30 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |