Example sentences of "if [pron] have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 2 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 3 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 4 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 5 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 6 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 7 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 8 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 9 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 10 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 11 | If you 've been drinking beer you can you ca n't smell beer on anybody else , can you ? |
| 12 | And it says a , i , i it 's stating things here er if you 've been wanted operation a long time the N S H er N S H that is it , yes . |
| 13 | And if you 've been watching BBC 's Masterchef series , the winning recipes are also in Good Food , on sale August 8 . |
| 14 | Do you think that the er it must be the war , the first world war , if you 've been watching Testament of Youth , Fear and Britain 's Testament of Youth , which I read years ago |
| 15 | If you 've been prescribed suppositories and you 're not sure how to use them or are too embarrassed to ask , the pharmacist will have explanatory leaflets . |
| 16 | ‘ My word , ’ said the sergeant , gazing at her blackened face and hands and torn frock , ‘ you look as if you 've been climbing trees . ’ |
| 17 | Remember , if you have been building circuits from previous parts of the series , check your stock of components before ordering new ones . |
| 18 | If you have been making love horizontally in bed for years and need something new to make sex more varied , Stade Français could be the answer . |
| 19 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 20 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 21 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 22 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 23 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 24 | The explosion detached the separate wings as if they had been plucked feathers . |
| 25 | A recent study , published in The Lancet , found that premature babies were six to ten times more likely to get necrotising enterocolitis — the most common , serious gastro-intestinal disease seen in special-care units — if they had been fed formula milk in place of breast milk . |
| 26 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 27 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 28 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 29 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 30 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |