Example sentences of "[verb] if it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 2 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 3 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 4 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 5 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 6 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 7 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 8 | The MP behind the bill says if it had been law then , her life would have been saved . |
| 9 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 10 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 11 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 12 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 13 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 14 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 15 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 16 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 17 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 18 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 19 | In other words , you could ride into the ring with a home-made hard hat that would have to be accepted if it had a ‘ harness secured to the shell at more than two points ’ , but they can pull you up for wearing black jodhs ! |
| 20 | The Board 's determination would , said the court , be accepted if it had warrant in the record and a reasonable basis in law . |
| 21 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 22 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 23 | Lawton ended the conversation saying he would be back ‘ tomorrow ’ [ Friday ] to see if it had been put right . |
| 24 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 25 | And then she 'd peep her head under the curtain to see if it had gone |
| 26 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 27 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 28 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 29 | I mean if it had been an electrician 's job and |
| 30 | 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 . |