Example sentences of "if i 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 2 | Instinctively , I reacted as if I 'd been hit . |
| 3 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 4 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 5 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 6 | It would have worked too , if I 'd been supported . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I would have thought how stupid it was if I 'd been made do it . |
| 9 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 10 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 11 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 12 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 13 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That was nice of Nevil , he 'd provided me with a cover story — I was supposed to look as if I 'd been mugged . |
| 16 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 17 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 19 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 20 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 21 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 22 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 23 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 24 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 25 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 28 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 29 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 30 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |