Example sentences of "if he 'd be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector was behind the door , as if he 'd been hiding there , painfully thin , still unshaven , a stained rag over his eyes . |
| 2 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 3 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 6 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 7 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 10 | His hair was damp as if he 'd been swimming and he was dressed casually in jeans and a thin denim-blue shirt . |
| 11 | He was asked if he 'd been drinking and he said he 'd a glass of wine . |
| 12 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 13 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 14 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 15 | If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said . |
| 16 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 17 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 18 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 19 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 20 | And breathless too , as if he 'd been running . |
| 21 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 22 | If he 'd been camping he 'd have chosen somewhere more comfortable . |
| 23 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 24 | The impossibly blond hair seemed dishevelled and appealingly boyish , as if he 'd been tossing restlessly . |