Example sentences of "[subord] i 'd [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me .
2 Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond
3 I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T.
4 It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere .
5 If I 'd leaked this myself ? ’
6 If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’
7 If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred .
8 To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’
9 Thanks to Werewolf , it looked as if I 'd done that already .
10 If I 'd done that if I 'd done that be worse you do n't use bad language but he 'd be he 's he 'd be
11 If I 'd done that if I 'd done that be worse you do n't use bad language but he 'd be he 's he 'd be
12 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
13 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
14 In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ .
15 No , but if I 'd said that
16 If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’
17 But , if I 'd gone next Thursday there 'd be e English , and then it 'd be a a job for them if they
18 I did n't know if I 'd covered all these
19 But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it .
20 ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’
21 If I 'd had two of my men inside that apartment , he would n't have done , ’ Cramer reminded him .
22 If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face .
23 If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’
24 It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck .
25 And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out .
26 Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’
27 If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’
28 I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster .
29 If I 'd had another one with a couple of
30 If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
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