Example sentences of "if i have be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 2 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 5 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 6 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 7 | And , I suppose , if I 've been dethroned I must at some stage have been enthroned ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 9 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
| 10 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |