Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 2 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 4 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 5 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 6 | if you 'd been buried alive you think |
| 7 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 8 | However , if you have been made redundant or are long-term unemployed you need to understand the thinking behind the interviewer 's prejudices and strive to overcome them by demonstrating strongly that you are unemployed because of circumstances beyond your control , not because you yourself are inadequate . |
| 9 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 10 | However , if you have been made redundant from a skilled or semi-skilled job you are eligible . |
| 11 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 12 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 13 | If they had been found guilty , they could have gone to jail . |
| 14 | Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right . |
| 15 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 16 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 17 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 18 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |