Example sentences of "if [adv] [noun prp] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only Anna had been able to attend . |
| 2 | If only Morpurgo had been a less thoroughbred specimen the contrast with what had subsequently overtaken him would have been easier to accept . |
| 3 | The prospects would have been even brighter if only Russia had been blessed with a less benighted tsar . |
| 4 | If only Jonathan had been around she might never have come to France , she might have stayed in London to explain it all to him , but he was away on business for a week , and the need to escape had been too powerful to resist . |
| 5 | If only Corbett had been elsewhere . |
| 6 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 7 | If only Kinnock had been able to show us this side of himself when he was still Leader of the Labour Party , the election might have had a very different result . |
| 8 | If only Dana had been more like Myra . |