Example sentences of "if she had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 2 | She looked drowsy , as if she had been asleep . |
| 3 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 4 | A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers . |
| 5 | In his dozing he wondered if she had been bored with him . |
| 6 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 7 | If she had been cheerful , she would grow sad , and if she had been depressed , she would grow bad-tempered . |
| 8 | If she had been rational enough to tell him something it certainly would n't have been that . |
| 9 | How would her mother have taken it if she had been alive ? |
| 10 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 11 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 12 | The rockdust prevented her from seeing if she had been successful in her kill . |
| 13 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 14 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 15 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 16 | If she had been unfaithful it would have been tricky to intervene . |
| 17 | If she had been angry before , she was twice as angry now . |
| 18 | If she had been wrong about him … ? |
| 19 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 20 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 21 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 22 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 23 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 24 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |
| 25 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 26 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |
| 27 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 28 | If she had been cheerful , she would grow sad , and if she had been depressed , she would grow bad-tempered . |
| 29 | Theda continued along the gallery , towards Lady Merchiston 's room , feeling ridiculously guilty , as if she had been ungracious . |
| 30 | But without her virtue , even if she had been beautiful , she would n't have been worth the weight of her little toe in dross . |