Example sentences of "[noun sg] if [indef pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been a great disappointment if someone had n't taken Don 's place . |
| 2 | Well in those days everybody was afraid and erm oh it was a blow if anybody had to go to the Valley . |
| 3 | It would be embarrassing to be given a gift if one had n't bought one in return . |
| 4 | No you know it 's just to have a point if anyone had thought anything about it but of course |
| 5 | One could only enter this sacred temple to snobbishness if one had a voucher of admission and they were harder to obtain than the stars out of the sky . |
| 6 | American college students were crazy about ‘ Chucks ’ ; so were Italian teens who would n't have known a basketball if one had knocked them off their mopeds . |
| 7 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 8 | Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , UK manufacturer of intelligent input/output controllers has pulled out of ACE : marketing director , Ian Cummins says ‘ ACE was initially a good idea if everyone had worked together . |
| 9 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 10 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 11 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 12 | Then he would ask the class if anyone had an answer , and before they had a chance to reply he would add " Mahaddie and I have arrived at this conclusion " . |