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 | 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 . |
| 6 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 7 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |