Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The driver seemed as concerned to show off his excessive acceleration as if we had been prospective buyers and he a salesman . |
| 4 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 5 | The reaction to the discovery , that it would mean that there would be no need of the Icelandic fishing grounds in future , makes it fairly certain that even if there had been accidental sightings of the New World before that date , no systematic attempts had been made to explore it further nor to exploit the resources of the Newfoundland Banks ( 45 , pp.214–16 ) . |
| 6 | Certainly with lower ability children doing oral work and class work that was true , Whether it would be so if there had been practical tasks associated with the French language is another question . |
| 7 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 8 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 9 | I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair . |
| 10 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 11 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 12 | If there had been any grounds for suspicion , it 'd be a different case . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to find out if there had been any mistakes , so I asked Ron if he had spotted any . |
| 14 | Standing at Reception at the Rossiya , asking if there had been any messages because the Ministry might.have telephoned to give timings for his meeting . |
| 15 | If there has been tricky manoeuvres I would have ignored the set course and followed my own , turning a circle if necessary : this was a schooling round , not an attempt to win a rosette . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm simply calling to see if there have been any developments . ’ |
| 17 | If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy . |
| 18 | This gives you time to chase it up if there have been any hiccups . |
| 19 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 20 | What if they had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded . |
| 21 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |