Example sentences of "if [pron] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 2 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 4 | I , I , I love poking , but it 's so funny what you see , now if I had n't been poking , know that little bonsai tree ? |
| 5 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 7 | I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago . |
| 8 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 9 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 10 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 11 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 12 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 13 | There were a few anxious moments , but as soon as I pulled on the glove she came straight at me , low and very fast indeed , much swifter of course than she could have done if she had still been carrying the equipment . |
| 14 | If you 've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight has n't changed . |
| 15 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 16 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 17 | And so if you have not been concentrating on the question |
| 18 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 19 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 20 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 21 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 22 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 23 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 24 | ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end . |
| 25 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 26 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 27 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 28 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 29 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 30 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |