Example sentences of "if you had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God only knows what might have happened if ye had screamed . ’ |
| 2 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 3 | This could be serious if you had to make a side-slip to get down into field on an early flight . |
| 4 | Would you hide if you had to ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 6 | ‘ Imagine what it would mean to Britain if you had a player in Manchester and a player in Liverpool who won Wimbledon and the US Open , ’ he said , boggling the mind . |
| 7 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 8 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 9 | I had a mate who could crack peanuts between his knees , which was an enormous asset if you had a girl with you . |
| 10 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if you had money ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have had it in properly for you if you had n't . |
| 13 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 14 | Lewis felt ‘ as if you had given me a bottle of champagne … |
| 15 | If you had smallpox , you 'd have a rash . |
| 16 | ( Mind you , if you had extrapolated the trend of Dixons sales in the mid-80s , you would have concluded that by the year 2020 we would be spending every penny of our income on consumer electronics . ) |
| 17 | ‘ If you had n't come to us , we would have come to you , ’ the colonel receiving the journalists said . |
| 18 | If you had any doubts about doing anything , she would be the first to say , ‘ Do n't be silly , you can do it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Mum is in bed with bronchitis , as you would know if you had managed to get out of that place since last Friday . ’ |
| 20 | So if you want to use just one dryer for your hair , you will now have to use the curiously inefficient-sounding sèche-cheveu , as if you had only one hair to dry . |
| 21 | If you had a deposit in an American bank between 1929 and 1932 , you had a one-in-ten chance of losing it . |
| 22 | If you had only two bullets , who would you shoot among Saddam Hussein , Yasser Arafat or Paul Keating ? |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 24 | You could have made it too , if you had n't been so stupid . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Or would be if you had white hair and put on a bit of weight . |
| 26 | Dot knew that when grown-ups started scurrying purposefully , something bad was about to happen , specially if you had n't heard the siren . |
| 27 | ‘ I can see right through her ! ’ he might have boasted , if you had suggested the possibility to him . |
| 28 | But if you had it once in a while , it means it stays special . ’ |
| 29 | It 's like if you had a doctor testing some aboriginal tribe for blood types — they would n't necessarily know what he was doing . ’ |
| 30 | It was at Shoom that Danny first met Steve Eusebe , the tall , dreadlocked singer who fronts the single , a mellow house groove with deep , soulful vocals that you would swear came straight from a gospel-trained Chicago house singer if you had n't already caught the London inflections . |