Example sentences of "if they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 2 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 3 | On the other hand , she thought miserably , what if they had already made love , and were now dozing ; before waking to start all over again ? |
| 4 | A Scottish Office official responded that the list of potential sites had been published and local authorities were being asked to deal with any development proposals as if they had already been designated as SPAs . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah , if they had exactly |
| 6 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 7 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 8 | It was as if they had just met . |
| 9 | If they had just kept the stuff they removed , it would have saved us six months of work . ’ |
| 10 | They looked rather as if they had just raided an old clothes shop , few of the items of their clothing being a match , and for the most part , fitting only where they touched . |
| 11 | If they had just wanted to make money , there were far better ways . |
| 12 | His eyebrows looked permanently as if they had just shot up . |
| 13 | Then a great many of the bar 's occupants began to behave as if they had just remembered urgent appointments . |
| 14 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 15 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 16 | It felt to her as if they had just unlocked the key to the whole universe , but she had a feeling that was not what he meant . |
| 17 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 18 | Foreigners who stutter their way through an inquiry about the way to the railway station are congratulated as if they had just recited Pushkin 's Eugene Onegin , and are asked : ‘ How did you learn Russian ? ’ |
| 19 | It looked as if they had nearly finished . |
| 20 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 21 | First , in any case , he must find out if they had yet informed others of the contents of the letter . |
| 22 | He crossed the river by the stepping stones , wondering if they had yet searched the mine ruins . |
| 23 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 24 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 25 | She tried to remember Isabelle objectively — wondering how she would have regarded her if they had simply met as strangers , but all she could call to mind was her mother 's warmth , and gentleness and capacity for love , and a slow anger began to build in her . |
| 26 | Patients were ineligible if they had previously undergone a colposcopic examination because of a report of abnormal cytology , if their cervical smear was taken during pregnancy , or if their cervical smear indicated atypical endocervical cylindrical epithelium . |
| 27 | Only that was nonsense , they would not be here , they would be wherever Randolph Henry Ash had put them , if they had ever been written . |
| 28 | We also asked people if they had ever had any problems over credit use , apart from the most recent purchase . |
| 29 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 30 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |