Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it went on crumbling , its instability was bound to endanger the good relations of the great powers . |
| 2 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
| 3 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
| 4 | ‘ See if it says how to drive it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yer never know what would 'ave 'appened if it 'ad n't rained . ’ |
| 6 | They never put it down if it goes up do they ? |
| 7 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , if it had n't rained so hard , I 'd have won two hundred pounds easily , my love , ’ Troy was saying . |
| 9 | If it had n't rained the night before the car was burnt , there could have been a major forest fire . |
| 10 | Robyn asked coolly , aware that this was in danger of turning into a real humdinger of a slanging match — if it had n't achieved that status already ! |
| 11 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 12 | I mean if if it had n't got a , there 's noise in the problem there 's |
| 13 | He 'd , somebody advised him because if it had n't got a license number plate on |
| 14 | If if it had n't caught , it was a dull sound you see , a thud . |
| 15 | Perhaps if it had n't happened so handily by chance , he would have engineered a meeting . |
| 16 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 17 | The feeling almost wiped out that terrible year as if it had n't happened at all . |
| 18 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 19 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 20 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 22 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 23 | If it had n't worked out , I would simply have carried on road riding . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Pretty rough on your mother if it had n't worked out , ’ said Julia . |
| 25 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 26 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 27 | The DIY company argues that if it had n't opened , it would indirectly be discriminating against the mainly female staff employed on that day . |
| 28 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 29 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her . |