Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 2 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 3 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 4 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 5 | Anyway , if you 've been talking to Betty you know who he is . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 8 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 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 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |