Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 2 | The large government service organisation consulted accepted that although it had not needed to recruit a team yet , ‘ we may do ’ . |
| 3 | Colin Chapman , however , had his doubts and was convinced that if it had barriers around it , similar to those at Monaco , Clark would never have died . |
| 4 | It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable . |
| 5 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 6 | Unfortunately this does not appear to work the other way ; the shipowners would not be entitled to any share in a windfall profit if the market value of the cargo increased dramatically and was sold for much more than if it had arrived on time . |
| 7 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 8 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |
| 9 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 10 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 11 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 12 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 13 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |