Example sentences of "if [pron] have [been] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 3 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 4 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 5 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 6 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 7 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 8 | Breeze sat as if she had been turned to stone . |
| 9 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 10 | She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices ! |
| 11 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 12 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 13 | Therefore , if you 've been exposed to the possibility of infection and have puzzling symptoms , see your doctor at once . |
| 14 | Anyway , if you 've been talking to Betty you know who he is . ’ |
| 15 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 16 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 17 | If you have been asked to , observe the contents of pan and report if there is anything unusual , such as blood or a change of colour . |
| 18 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 19 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | If they have been fitted to these new Foxbats , then the aircraft would have a potential complement of 6 to 8 AAMs in place of the current 4 … on top of its two wing-mounted 23mm electric cannon . |
| 22 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 23 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 24 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 25 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 26 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 27 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 28 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 29 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 30 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |