Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 2 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 3 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 4 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 5 | If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this — ; and other receptors — in detail in IMHV . |
| 6 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 7 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 8 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 9 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 10 | Sometimes I enjoy it , it depends what mood I 'm in , and if she 's been playing up . |
| 11 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |
| 12 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 13 | And if you , if you 've been coming here regularly I do n't feel it 's a ve a very good service anyway . |
| 14 | That way it will look as if you 've been asking around about me . ’ |
| 15 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |
| 16 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 17 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |
| 18 | If you have been missing out , you may be able to claim back anything you have lost for up to six years and should receive a tax rebate . |
| 19 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 20 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 21 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 22 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 23 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
| 24 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 25 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 26 | It was noticeably warm , as if it had been hiding somewhere snug . |
| 27 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 28 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 29 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 30 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |