Example sentences of "[verb] if [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your patience is appreciated and we apologise if we have been overpaying you . |
| 2 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 3 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 4 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 5 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 6 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 7 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 8 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 9 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 10 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 11 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
| 12 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 15 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 16 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
| 17 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 21 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 22 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 23 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
| 24 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 25 | He was asked if he 'd been drinking and he said he 'd a glass of wine . |
| 26 | Asked if he had been regarding his voice coaching , she said : ‘ I believe so . ’ |
| 27 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 28 | ‘ It would n't have happened if you 'd been steering , ’ she said miserably . |
| 29 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 30 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |