Example sentences of "if i have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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31 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
32 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
33 | 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 . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | If I had been looking , I might have found it . |
36 | 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 . ’ |
37 | 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 . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
41 | If I had been staying with you I … |
42 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
43 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
44 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
45 | ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her . |
46 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
47 | There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and if I had been working , I would have told him to buckle down — which would have done no good at all . |
48 | If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this — ; and other receptors — in detail in IMHV . |
49 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
50 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
51 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
52 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
53 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |