Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 2 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 5 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 10 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 14 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 15 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 16 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 17 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 18 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 19 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 20 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 21 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 22 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 23 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 24 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 25 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 26 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |