Example sentences of "if [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone had been like she was the human race would have died out long ago . |
| 2 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 3 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 4 | It would have worked too , if I 'd been supported . ’ |
| 5 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 6 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 8 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 9 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 10 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 11 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 12 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 13 | I have tried therapy ( male ) which was unsympathetic to say the least ; if I 'd been a ‘ good little Jewish girl ’ , and ( later ) the type of young woman that would make ‘ an ideal bride ’ I would have been ‘ happy ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 16 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |
| 17 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd been more , you know , responsive and that , then Denny 'd still be here today . |
| 19 | If I 'd been smarter , or less vain , I might have realized that this meant that my former role was now vacant . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ They would n't have taken 'im even if I 'd been willing to part with 'im , me being a widow . |
| 23 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 27 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 28 | If I 'd been older and known the words to comfort him … |
| 29 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |