Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 ‘ People forget that if it had n't been for John , we might not have got this far .
2 I mean if if it had n't got a , there 's noise in the problem there 's
3 But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't .
4 Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards .
5 She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother .
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