Example sentences of "if [pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 …
3 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 . ’
4 I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand .
5 If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road .
6 as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing .
7 If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later .
8 And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past .
9 ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine .
10 Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head .
11 Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down .
12 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
13 He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known .
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