Example sentences of "if [pron] 'd 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 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 21 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 22 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 23 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 24 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 25 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 26 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 27 | she only has a biscuit , sometimes she 'll bring scones or cake or , if she 'd been baking |
| 28 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 29 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 30 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |