Example sentences of "if they have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 2 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 3 | If they 've been boozing , you could end up with erm enough blood |
| 4 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 5 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 6 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 7 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 8 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 9 | Dot wondered if they 'd been arguing . |
| 10 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 11 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 12 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
| 13 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 14 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 16 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 17 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 18 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 19 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 22 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 23 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 24 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 25 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 26 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 27 | I 've played against him and Wasim in county cricket and , believe me , if they had been cheating I would have known . |
| 28 | And we should most certainly have heard the Gruagach if they had been following us . |
| 29 | Students who are entitled to transitional relief will receive ⅕ of the relief they would have received if they had been paying the full community charge . |
| 30 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |