Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 2 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 3 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 4 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 5 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 6 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 7 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 8 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 9 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 10 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 11 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 12 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 13 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 14 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 15 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 16 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 17 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 18 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 19 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 20 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 21 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 22 | Anyone owning an ordinary black moggie , as distinct from a pedigree ‘ Black Shorthair ’ , may well have noticed that it boasts a small patch of white hairs , sometimes boldly visible and sometimes barely perceptible . |
| 23 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 24 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 25 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 26 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 27 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 28 | But a proper understanding of the concept of communicative competence would have revealed that it gives no endorsement for the neglect of grammar . |
| 29 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 30 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |