Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 2 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 3 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 4 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 5 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 6 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 7 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 8 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 9 | I sometimes join them , if their smell is n't too gamey , and exchange the time of day during my lunch hour , just to make sure that I still have the use of my voice if I 've been feeding the archive into the computer all day . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel , ’ he said , ‘ as if I 've been waiting a hundred years for you . ’ |
| 11 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 12 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 13 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 14 | ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her . |
| 15 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 16 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
| 17 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 18 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 19 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 20 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 21 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 22 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 23 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 24 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 25 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 26 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 27 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 28 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 29 | ‘ The Seraglio complex is through there , ’ her guide croaked , with as little drama as if she had been showing the way to the bathroom . |
| 30 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |