Example sentences of "if [pron] have been at " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
2 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
3 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
4 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
5 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
6 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
7 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
8 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
9 | ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver . |
10 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
11 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
12 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |
13 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
14 | But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all . |
15 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
16 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
17 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |