Example sentences of "if i [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 8 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 9 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 13 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 14 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 15 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 16 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 17 | If I 'd been standing , I 'd have shuffled my feet . |
| 18 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 21 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 22 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 23 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 24 | I sometimes join them , if their smell is n't too gamey , and exchange the time of day during my lunch hour , just to make sure that I still have the use of my voice if I 've been feeding the archive into the computer all day . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 26 | I 've always ai n't I when I 've done summat , if I 've been sawing or banging , making a noise I 've always stopped at ten |
| 27 | ‘ I feel , ’ he said , ‘ as if I 've been waiting a hundred years for you . ’ |
| 28 | The tree blurs , as if I 've been crying |
| 29 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 30 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |