Example sentences of "be [prep] if [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 2 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 3 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 4 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 5 | What would the album have been like if you had n't gone there ? |
| 6 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 7 | It would be as if he had never been taken in treason . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 9 | And when a tune like that comes along , it 's as if they 've always known that song , and so then you tap in the song and that 's why you 're doing the record . |
| 10 | It 's as if they have a life of their own . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 12 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 13 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 14 | It 's as if he has heroically outlined himself , Lee thought , become the most significant member of the group . |
| 15 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 16 | It 's as if he has just noticed an extra thumb . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's as if it had a mind of its own ’ , ’ Grimma read . |
| 19 | It 's as if it 's always been . |
| 20 | it 's as if you 've been anaesthetized ! |
| 21 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 22 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 23 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 24 | As Theresa says , we usually try and censor them , try and say no , you know , leave that out , erm , it 's as if you had a kind of er censor sitting in your mind telling me , er telling you telling you er er , but it works with me too , erm what you can and can not say . |
| 25 | When the wind changes it 's as if you have never played the hole before . |
| 26 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 27 | He 's just like a child , Joe thought , it 's as if I 've taken his toys away from him . |
| 28 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 29 | So that divided forty-nine point two three four by ten and it 's as if I 've moved the point one place back . |
| 30 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |