Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 2 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 3 | Tina looked guilty , as if she had just betrayed a secret . |
| 4 | She stopped abruptly , almost as if she had metaphorically clapped a hand over her mouth . |
| 5 | The wind seemed to be coming from her left , bitter in the as if she had suddenly received a painful blow . |
| 6 | Sybil wrinkled her nose as if she had suddenly detected a smell from the drains . |
| 7 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 8 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 9 | But , anyway , if you had just killed a man and taken his pocket-book , would you quietly go through it there ? |
| 10 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 11 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 12 | Now , if we had actually received a one point five percent increase in the business rates , we could have cut the council tax |
| 13 | It would be very long-winded if we had always to answer a question like Do you like mangoes ? with a sentence like Yes I like mangoes or Yes I think I like mangoes . |
| 14 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 15 | Patients were ineligible if they had previously undergone a colposcopic examination because of a report of abnormal cytology , if their cervical smear was taken during pregnancy , or if their cervical smear indicated atypical endocervical cylindrical epithelium . |
| 16 | They were also asked if they had ever consulted a doctor about recurrent bowel symptoms or abdominal pain . |
| 17 | If they had all spent a little of their energy cooperating with staff instead of moaning , they would have got out a lot quicker . |
| 18 | Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before . |
| 19 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 20 | They wanted to know if he had ever grown a beard ? |
| 21 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 22 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 23 | Returning to Wollheim 's analogy : when the reader of the porn performs , as internal actor , his fantasy , he is left , as internal audience , in a state that simulates the state he would be in if he had actually had a relationship with a woman like the imagined one . |