Example sentences of "if [pron] have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 2 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 4 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 5 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 6 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 7 | If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand . |
| 8 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 9 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 10 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 11 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 12 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 13 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 14 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 15 | If you have been thinking this way , practise having height in hand and using the airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 16 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 17 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 18 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 19 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 20 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 21 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 23 | He almost certainly had a pearl fedora to go with the image and brown and white two-tone shoes , if he 'd been wearing any . |
| 24 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 25 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 26 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 27 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |