Example sentences of "if [pron] have not been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 7 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 8 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 11 | And so if you have not been concentrating on the question |
| 12 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 19 | He would have felt nervous if it had n't been raining . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But then he would have been calm , I supposed , if he had n't been expecting anything to happen except before Vancouver . |
| 22 | I mean , he would n't have noticed if he had n't been looking . |
| 23 | If he had n't been coming to visit me , it would never have happened . ’ |
| 24 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |