Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sight to get the taste buds going … especially if you 've been sleeping rough the night before . |
| 2 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 6 | Mind you it 's true he'd' 've got more for it probably if it 'd been working but |
| 7 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 10 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 11 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 12 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 13 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 14 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 15 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 16 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 17 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |
| 18 | ‘ I know a lady lawyer who can get you off , even if you 've been going round the shops buying poison , ’ he said . |
| 19 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 20 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 21 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 22 | Even if she had been asking me to make love to her — which she was n't — the answer would very definitely have been no . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cecilia would have been very surprised indeed if she had been wearing anything but jeans and a sweater or T-shirt , and she was not . |
| 25 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |