Example sentences of "[verb] if [pron] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't even know if they had been responsible but I had nothing more to offer . |
| 2 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 3 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 4 | I do n't know if he had been lunged before , but he did n't seem to have much idea about it and was wary of the lunge whip at first . |
| 5 | Then , after apparently sorting everything out band-wise , Jeremy suddenly disappeared and we did n't know if he 'd been ‘ offed ’ , or what , given the uncertainty of Los Angeles . |
| 6 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 7 | It would have been difficult to accept if he had been killed so young in a car crash , but when it was so senseless … ‘ |
| 8 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 9 | He wanted to know if I minded being illegitimate … ’ |
| 10 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 11 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 12 | Not that it would have mattered if there had been , she told herself with resignation . |
| 13 | In this case , space is left unused in the main data area when the file is created , and additions are located on the same cylinder ( IBM ) or seek area ( ICL ) that they would have occupied if they had been part of the file when it was created . |
| 14 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 15 | The MP behind the bill says if it had been law then , her life would have been saved . |
| 16 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 17 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 18 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 19 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 20 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 21 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 22 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 23 | Surely she 'd have noticed if there had been any other forced entry . |
| 24 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 25 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 26 | We have won the City 's support to raise the money , as we did for Staley and our other North American acquisitions — and as we would have done if we had been allowed to buy British Sugar . ’ |
| 27 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 28 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 29 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 30 | Tell me , ’ she added , determined to put things straight between them , ‘ purely as a matter of interest , what would you have done if I had been pregnant ? ’ |