Example sentences of "if they [vb past] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | would n't it have been better if they 'd done it before |
| 2 | He searched everywhere for it , going right through the village , asking people if they 'd seen it . |
| 3 | Er if they 'd kept it separate . |
| 4 | The people were friendly , there was plenty to eat if they 'd wanted it , and from what he 'd seen there were quite a few unattached girls around . |
| 5 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 6 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 7 | He was wondering if they 'd found it . |
| 8 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 9 | The mount for the .50 calibre machine-gun was still on the vehicle but the malais had found a use for the Browning elsewhere , I think because they also used the jeep to drive foreign journos around and it would have vitiated the claims to have pacified Danu if they 'd left it on . |
| 10 | And er quite simply that if they 'd left it alone on a European side because obviously you can get flight from London Gatwick for approximately forty nine pounds |
| 11 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 12 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 13 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 14 | It would have been an injustice if they had taken it away from me . ’ |
| 15 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 16 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 17 | This Christian Socialist , dedicated to equal shares and to soaking the rich ( who included his own family ) , was accepted and frostily admired as an incorruptible thorn in the nation 's conscience , forever reminding them that there was no jam today and they could only expect some tomorrow if they had earned it . |
| 18 | Warner had added with casual precision which would have made the Gestapo rage in frustration if they had intercepted it : ‘ The bomb landed at deep mid-on , bowling from the Nursery end . ’ |
| 19 | If they had held it , as they should , over the Patriarch 's head , it might have kept the dew from settling on his mitre . |
| 20 | It was as if they had left it as late as possible to take maximum advantage of credit . |