Example sentences of "if [pron] had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 2 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 3 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 4 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 6 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 7 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 8 | If someone had gone home after 55 minutes when we were well on top and switched on his TV to see the score , he would have thought someone was playing a joke . ’ |
| 9 | So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it . |
| 10 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 11 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 12 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 13 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 14 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 15 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 16 | It was almost as if she had forgotten how to . |
| 17 | And especially so , it appeared , if you had done well from nothing , like Dad . |
| 18 | I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level . |
| 19 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 20 | They did n't show when the lectern was down , but imagine the audience 's laughter if they had popped up with the lectern and the speaker . |
| 21 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
| 22 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 23 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 24 | There was no change in anxiety in the group who had received detailed information ( p=0.20 ) , whereas patients who received a rather superficial explanation of the risks were significantly less anxious afterwards ( p=0.012 ) , particularly if they had scored highly on the baseline anxiety assessment ( fig 1 ; r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) . |
| 25 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 26 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 27 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |
| 28 | ‘ You have to wonder how some of the big names would have coped if they had taken over at Tranmere — or at this place four years ago . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 30 | If they had found out about it , Jeffrey would have been kicked out . |