Example sentences of "if i 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 2 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 3 | I 'd have taken my overcoat if I 'd known . |
| 4 | I told him and it was as if I 'd opened Heaven 's door . |
| 5 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , in the interval of a gig on his 1986 UK tour , a disgruntled punter was heard to remark : ‘ If I 'd wanted something this cerebral on a Friday night , I 'd ‘ ve stayed at home and read Proust . ’ |
| 7 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd done it then , perhaps I would n't have been fit to go to the Olympics and worlds , and I 'd hate to be sitting here now thinking I could have won . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 10 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 11 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 12 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground . |
| 13 | ‘ It was heart-breaking — she looked so frail , I felt as if I 'd almost lost her , ’ says her mum . |
| 14 | He 'd have got me the moon out of the sky if I 'd wanted it . ’ |
| 15 | He asked me if I 'd had anything to eat today . |
| 16 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 17 | On the other hand , if I 'd lost I could have gone home quicky . ’ |
| 18 | It would have worked too , if I 'd been supported . ’ |
| 19 | If I 'd wanted to do red nipples there was n't a decent whole stick of red left . |
| 20 | If I 'd asked them … . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could have got her to believe that , if I 'd wanted to . ’ |
| 22 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 23 | If I 'd had to play someone who was like ‘ Hey Mr Brando , where do you get off ? ’ that might have been harder . ’ |
| 24 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 25 | If I 'd published my results , the consequences could have been disastrous . |
| 26 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 28 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Doone asked me if I 'd left your jacket and boots in Harry 's car . |
| 30 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |