Example sentences of "if [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 2 | Her grandmother , his elder sister , would have been seventy if she had been still living , and there were several years between them . |
| 3 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 4 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 5 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |
| 7 | It may be that if he had been actively working for Balston Ltd his activities might have been in breach of his implied duty of fidelity . |