Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 2 | There was nothing furtive in his attitude and he would have been quite unashamed if anyone had caught him . |
| 3 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 4 | Would n't it have been sad if she had lived her life with her mistaken Inner/Outer Face ? |
| 5 | ‘ It allowed Tatham to develop reserves that probably would not have been economic if they had to build their own stand-alone facility . |
| 6 | My master ordered a jug of wine and questioned the slattern , a pretty , fresh-cheeked wench , who would have been quite comely if she had kept her teeth . |
| 7 | It might have sounded embarrassing if I had said it , ’ I smiled . |
| 8 | She was not sure if she had kicked her in the throat . |
| 9 | I still was n't quite sure if I had got it quite right . |
| 10 | Grant , stunned , sat staring at the cell entrance , not sure if he had imagined what he 'd seen , or not . |
| 11 | Equally , he was never sure if he had missed something or escaped it . |
| 12 | In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy . |
| 13 | He thought for a second , just an instant , there was something there , something in her eyes like a flicker of uncertainty , but it was so brief he was unsure if he had imagined it . |
| 14 | ‘ My mother is almost here and she would be startled if I had to kiss you into silence . |
| 15 | I looked anxiously at him , partly to make sure the pleasure was really genuine ( it would have been unbearable if he had thought me an intruder ) and partly to see whether any of the magic was left . |
| 16 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
| 17 | You know , would n't it be nice if he had asked me out . |
| 18 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 19 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 20 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 21 | And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it . |