Example sentences of "if i [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 2 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 4 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 6 | If I had n't put that frock on the lady — she 's my girlfriend by the way — I 'd have had to give her blue nipples . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 8 | ‘ And if I had n't paid why would there be a receipt anyway , ’ protested Kylie quite logically . |
| 9 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 10 | If I had n't found a way out we 'd both eventually have died of cold or drowning , or both . |
| 11 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 12 | The fact is that if I had n't taken part in the BBC television previews of the big event I would probably be riding my old friend Bonanza Boy . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had n't known he was wearing shoes I 'd have sworn he had clogs on , ’ Maggie said . |
| 14 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 15 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 16 | She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career . |
| 17 | All she could mutter was , ‘ Bruce , if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , I would never have believed it . ’ |
| 18 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 19 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 20 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 21 | If I had n't seized zee pastel |
| 22 | If I had n't snatched zee pencil |
| 23 | If I had n't let |
| 24 | I always had the feeling that if I had n't , she would have sat there all night . |
| 25 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 26 | ‘ Just think , ’ I whispered ; ‘ If I had n't gone dancing tonight , I would not have met you , darling . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 28 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 29 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 30 | I definitely would n't have done it if I had n't already released a heap of my own songs . |