Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 2 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 3 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 4 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 5 | If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said . |
| 6 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 7 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 8 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 9 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |
| 10 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Thank you for all your contributions over the last year , and please accept my apologies if I have n't been able to use an article that you 've sent , hopefully the next issue will contain those for which due to lack of space I was unable to include this time . |
| 12 | If she 'd ever been awake . |
| 13 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 14 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 15 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 16 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 17 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 18 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 19 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 20 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 21 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Tribunal concluded that S would not have been dismissed if she had not been pregnant . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How would he have reacted if she had really been ill ? |
| 26 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 27 | Because her stomach , it 's alright if she 's not been sick . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 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 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |