Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 2 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 3 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 4 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 6 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 7 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 8 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 11 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 12 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 13 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 14 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 15 | ‘ And what if I had never shown up here ? |
| 16 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 17 | Now when somebody else stood up here if somebody had totally dried up or been so nervous they could n't do it what would you have felt . |
| 18 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 19 | After that she reckoned that if she had n't moved on to somewhere bigger , she 'd probably be stuck here forever reading out the latest sheep prices at six o'clock every morning . |
| 20 | Even if she had n't sussed out who had ordered the stuff , she should have asked for his advice and help in disposing of it . |
| 21 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 22 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 23 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 24 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 25 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |
| 26 | If you had n't moved on , someone would care now . |
| 27 | Would that actually have solved anything , because if you had n't turned up , they 'd have still been without a P A. |
| 28 | But think of this : if you had n't turned up , asking questions , we would n't have found you , would we ? |
| 29 | If you had n't come round that night , none of this would have been allowed to happen — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What would you be doing now if you had n't come down ? ’ |