Example sentences of "[subord] if i have [be] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
2 And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too .
3 I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand .
4 It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’
5 Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’
  Next page