Example sentences of "if [pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 3 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 4 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 5 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 6 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 7 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 8 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 9 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 10 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 13 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 14 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 15 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 19 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 20 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |