Example sentences of "if [pron] have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 2 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 3 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 4 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 5 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 6 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 7 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 8 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 9 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 10 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 11 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 12 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 17 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 18 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And if it comes to that , how can I be here at all if I have n't been born yet ? |
| 21 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 22 | She felt as if she 'd already been questioned on the rack , and fitzAlan had n't even tried to force any definite answers out of her . |
| 23 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 24 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 25 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 26 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 27 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 28 | Even if she had n't been linked to the blackamoor , the cards were stacked against flight . |
| 29 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 30 | 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 ? |