Example sentences of "if he [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 4 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 5 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 6 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 7 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |