Example sentences of "[pron] if [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the issues of capacity and genuine consent or rejection are separate , in reality they may well overlap , so that a patient in a weakened condition may be unduly influenced in circumstances in which if he had been fit , he would have resisted the influence sought to be exercised over him . |
| 2 | Later a radio interviewer from KQED asked me if I 'd been frightened and I said , truthfully , no , adding that maybe I was just too slow and stupid . |
| 3 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 4 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 5 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 6 | ‘ You ask me if it 's been tough . |
| 7 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 8 | ‘ You could have got the information for nothing if you had been a little more persuasive , a little more patient . |
| 9 | There is a lot of work ahead to check with other forces on what 's been stolen.The police will contact people who 've reported antiques stolen to tell them if they 've been recovered . |
| 10 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 11 | I said and so would you if you had been through what I have . |
| 12 | We if we 'd been a minute later we 'd have |
| 13 | The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided . |
| 14 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |
| 15 | But he added that they could have had serious consequences for her if they had been true . |
| 16 | He wondered if dry eyes might also be a symbolic message about weeping and tears so asked her if she had been allowed to cry as a child . |
| 17 | He would need a doctor to tell him if she had been violated , but there was no indication of it , not even a bruise on an arm where a strong hand might have held her . |
| 18 | What would you have done with him if you had been able to arrest him ? |
| 19 | When I asked him if he had been involved in an accident , he shook his head . |
| 20 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But he looked up and smiled quite normally , and she did n't have the nerve to ask him if he had been listening . |
| 22 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 23 | ‘ She might have forgiven him if it had been anyone else , you mean ? ’ |
| 24 | have been him if it had been in the south , with me . |
| 25 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 26 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 27 | He might have lied about it if he 'd been able to think more quickly , but the truth was out before he knew it . |
| 28 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 29 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |