Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could 've done if you 'd wanted one , though . ’ |
| 2 | No he would 've done if you had n't , but he says this |
| 3 | She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul . |
| 4 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 5 | She knows that and the statistics are at least available from the Library but not with the precision that she could have given if she had chosen to give them to the House . |
| 6 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 7 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 8 | She would have spat if she had the spit to spare in her dry carcass . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ No , the pouch was sealed and the Lady Eleanor would soon have realised if I 'd tampered with it . |
| 11 | Students who are entitled to transitional relief will receive ⅕ of the relief they would have received if they had been paying the full community charge . |
| 12 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 13 | See How Much You Could Have Received If You Had Started Investing 10 Years Ago |
| 14 | But Riven tripped on a shadow , and would have fallen if she had not caught his arm . |
| 15 | But Mr laird said he 'd have stopped if he 'd had to use excessive force . |
| 16 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 17 | At best we might get material from which a more or less dubious inference might be drawn as to what the promoters intended or would have intended if they had thought about the matter , and it would , I think , generally be dangerous to attach weight to what some other members of either House may have said . |
| 18 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 19 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 20 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
| 21 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 22 | — He 'll have panicked if I know him , that Warden . |
| 23 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 24 | This was the way Therese would have looked if she had never left the stage , never married Friedrich , never had years of misery and failure . |
| 25 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 26 | It would n't have mattered if they 'd caught her . |
| 27 | It would n't have mattered if he had turned out to be a Celtic supporter at that decisive moment because I had the Celtic team on my tongue all ready to trot out , starting with Kennaway , Cook , McGonigle . |
| 28 | But his domestic situation would n't have mattered if she had fancied him , but she did n't . |
| 29 | And , and to be able to if you like , bring it as a dowry , but it would n't have mattered if she had n't a penny . |
| 30 | Not that it would have mattered if there had been , she told herself with resignation . |