Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone had been like she was the human race would have died out long ago . |
| 2 | If I 'd been smarter , or less vain , I might have realized that this meant that my former role was now vacant . |
| 3 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a special licence in my pocket ; if I 'd been obliged to go to Paris you 'd have come with me as my wife . ’ |
| 5 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 6 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 7 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 8 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 9 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They would n't have taken 'im even if I 'd been willing to part with 'im , me being a widow . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 12 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 13 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 14 | If I 'd been older and known the words to comfort him … |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd been unfaithful , what matter if it was a Protestant or not ? |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If I 'd been kinder to Leon would he have done those things ? |
| 19 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 20 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 21 | Mala asked , her voice as raw as I 'm sure men would have sounded , if I 'd been able to speak . |
| 22 | If I 'd been able to think straight five years ago , I 'd never have married you . |
| 23 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 24 | ‘ So if I 'd been queer , what happened this morning would n't have ? ’ |
| 25 | " Do you know , I feel as if I 've been asleep . |
| 26 | ‘ But it looks as if I 've been lucky and escaped the worst of it . |
| 27 | If I 've been wrong about you I 'm sorry . |
| 28 | But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? |
| 29 | Tell me , ’ she added , determined to put things straight between them , ‘ purely as a matter of interest , what would you have done if I had been pregnant ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |