Example sentences of "if they [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the moment this is not always done and yet there are people who , if they 'd been approached , would have been willing to give permission . ’ |
| 2 | Dot wondered if they 'd been arguing . |
| 3 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 4 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 5 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |
| 6 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 7 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 8 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 9 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 12 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |
| 13 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 14 | You got a lot of people slacking up because there 's no real punishment … there 's a lot of people in this school what would have worked if they 'd been pushed . ’ |
| 15 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 16 | He and his friends would have seen that if they 'd been allowed to talk for a bit . |
| 17 | Between er , er the best , the best end of the scale ones which I would of thought if they 'd been submitted to something like a general |
| 18 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 19 | Would that apply if they 'd been independent but gone back into it ? |
| 20 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 21 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 22 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 23 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 24 | The crushing weariness was a formidable enemy , though , and she felt her eyelids drooping as if they 'd been weighted . |
| 25 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 26 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 27 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 28 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 29 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 30 | Joe would have liked it better if they 'd been level . |