Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 2 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 6 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 7 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 8 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 9 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 13 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 14 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 15 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 16 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 17 | If I 'd been standing , I 'd have shuffled my feet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 20 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 21 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 22 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 23 | If I had been looking , I might have found it . |
| 24 | Whyte ( 1955 ) agrees : ‘ As I sat and listened , I learned the answers to questions I would not have had the sense to ask if I had been getting my information solely on an interviewing basis . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 29 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 30 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |