Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 3 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 4 | ‘ I would remind you both , ’ said the abbot gently , ‘ that if she has been all this while consulting her own wishes , and imposing them upon us mortals , Saint Winifred is again on her own altar in our church . |
| 5 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But , Madam , if you e'er was such , |
| 8 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 9 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 10 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 11 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 12 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 13 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 14 | If it had been any faster , the child would have been killed . |
| 15 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 16 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 17 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 18 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 19 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 20 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ If he had been any shorter he would not have survived . ’ |
| 22 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |