Example sentences of "if i [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 2 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 3 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been more , you know , responsive and that , then Denny 'd still be here today . |
| 5 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd been there much longer she 'd have been levelled down all right , ’ Bridie said with a grin . |
| 7 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , if I 'd been there I would have given the wretched old woman a hefty slap myself — just to see how she liked it ! ’ |
| 9 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 10 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |
| 11 | And now this feeling , as if I had been deftly |
| 12 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 13 | It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave . |
| 14 | Now , if I had been more like you , Catherine … |
| 15 | ‘ If I had been there , I 'd have stopped it , and she knew that . |
| 16 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 17 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 18 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 19 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 20 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |