Example sentences of "if i had [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 2 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 3 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 4 | I felt as if I had been hit . |
| 5 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 6 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 7 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was feeling winded , as if I had been shot . |
| 10 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think if I had been allowed to go on , there would still be a British film industry , ’ Forbes said in the late 1980s . |
| 12 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 14 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 15 | But of her job as Minister of Health she said : ‘ If I had been forced to pick any job it would have been this one . ’ |
| 16 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |