Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 2 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 3 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 4 | I have tried therapy ( male ) which was unsympathetic to say the least ; if I 'd been a ‘ good little Jewish girl ’ , and ( later ) the type of young woman that would make ‘ an ideal bride ’ I would have been ‘ happy ’ . |
| 5 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 6 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 7 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 8 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I could have got action like that if I 'd been a count , ’ she mused . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 11 | If I 've been a little abrupt , then I sincerely apologise . |
| 12 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 13 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 14 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 15 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 16 | If she 'd been a man . |
| 17 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 18 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 19 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 20 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 21 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 22 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 23 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 24 | He cut another slice and then he leaned across and buttered it for her , as if she had been a child . |
| 25 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 26 | In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in . |
| 27 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 28 | The prosecution alleges that after being beaten , a sherry bottle was used on the body of Mrs McMullen to make it look as if she had been a victim of a sexual attack . |
| 29 | That would have caused outrage if she had been an infant , since Zuwaya do not slap other people 's children . |
| 30 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |