Example sentences of "if she [verb] n't [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 2 | Jenny was nine , and even if she had n't been adventurous she would probably have fallen in the river anyway , because there was nothing much to do at Dale End but get into mischief . |
| 3 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 4 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 5 | She knew it was best , but she could n't help wondering what would have happened if she had n't been so proud on Christmas Day . |
| 6 | Even if she had n't been linked to the blackamoor , the cards were stacked against flight . |
| 7 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 8 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 9 | It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child . |
| 10 | If she had n't been well , perhaps , for some time , and had lost interest in the garden , and wanted to get the cottage done over for sale or letting , then she might have told them to go ? ’ |
| 11 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 12 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 13 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 14 | If she had n't been so irritable and on edge , Camille might have been flattered by this notion . |
| 15 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 16 | If you ask me , if she had n't been so fussed over by you and your Mum she 'd have turned round and faced up to things and been a lot happier . |
| 17 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 18 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 19 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 20 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 21 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 22 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |
| 23 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 24 | It seemed unlikely that anyone would choose to live in this out-of-the-way place without some form of transport — if she had n't been so nervous , that would have occurred to her earlier , she thought wryly . |
| 25 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 26 | She might have been amused if she had n't been so annoyed . |
| 27 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 28 | ‘ She had very serious abdominal wounds and one doctor told me she would have died if she had n't been so young and healthy , ’ said Mr Kelly . |
| 29 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 30 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |