Example sentences of "if you have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF YOU had been in Whitehall one day in April 13 years ago you would have witnessed a remarkable sight . |
| 2 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 3 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 4 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 5 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 6 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 7 | If you had been Chief Onlaf , in which order of importance would you have placed the seven requirements for a suitable village site ? |
| 8 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |
| 9 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 10 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |
| 11 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 12 | If you had been dead drunk , you could n't have slept deeper . |
| 13 | ‘ I asked if you had been over there yet ? ’ |
| 14 | Previously you were entitled to these rights only if you had been in an employer 's scheme for at least five years . |
| 15 | Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday . |
| 16 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 17 | If you had been , you 'd have learned about roads . |
| 18 | You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability . |
| 19 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 20 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 21 | Am I to believe in it , that every response should come so neatly , as if you had been through the Gospels and marked all the places to trap each enquirer ? |
| 22 | If you had been a young person at the beginning of this century , you may have been in ‘ in service ’ , working as a maid or servant for a wealthy family . |
| 23 | 1 Do you think that Fateha , Louise and Marlon were fair to Anthony ? 2 What are your reasons ? 3 What would you have done if you had been them ? 4 What would you have done if you were him ? 5 What is your impression of each of the four of them ? |
| 24 | Decide what you would have done if you had been Sandra , and why . |
| 25 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
| 26 | And if you had been I know just exactly who my brother would have blamed ! |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I did n't really believe it , but business is n't great at the moment , and if you had been the person concerned … ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps if you had been a different sort of person — less sensitive , less driven by the bitterness of your mother … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you had been awake , would you have been more amenable ? |
| 30 | ‘ If you had been , I guess , she would have told me . ’ |