Example sentences of "if [pron] have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 2 | If she had been the offspring of drunken parents in Scotland Road , or born with a hair-lip like Ma Tang 's daughter , there might be some excuse for feeling as she did . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I did n't really believe it , but business is n't great at the moment , and if you had been the person concerned … ’ |
| 4 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 5 | If you have been the victim of any kind of personal attack , call the police immediately . |
| 6 | A veterinary is what Uncle Tommy might have been if there had been the money to send him away to train , because he was very good with animals . |
| 7 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 9 | d , If it had been the turn of Glasgow to preside and there had been an equality of votes , the Glasgow delegate would no doubt have given his casting vote to Kirkman Finlay and he es would have been elected . |
| 10 | ‘ If it had been the Queen and her corgis waiting , I would n't have picked them up . |
| 11 | If it had been the Chinese who engulfed the world in a wide-embracing economic system , we might well have found ourselves using jade rather than gold as a symbol of supreme value . |
| 12 | Now if it had been the north side it would have been a straight line . |
| 13 | To which I replied , ‘ This is not the substance of what he said , and if it had been the substance he would have divided the Cabinet ’ ' ( 15 December 1964 ) . |
| 14 | If it had been the house and the body it would surely have referred not to digging a woodland grave but to digging in an animal cemetery . |
| 15 | He reckons the trip would have been smashing if it had been the height of summer but as it was , he saw practically nothing from start to finish . |
| 16 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
| 17 | ‘ Same difference , ’ the Doctor said casually , and slipped into the command chair as if he had been the ship 's pilot for years . |