Example sentences of "if [pron] have [been] [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 . |
| 54 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 55 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 56 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 57 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 58 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 59 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 60 | It looked as if somebody had been giving the place a pretty thorough airing , and it was n't too hard to guess who . |