Example sentences of "if it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 2 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 3 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 4 | If it get 's much colder I shall have . |
| 5 | If it 'd been me wed … ’ |
| 6 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 7 | ‘ If it 'd been my missus , I 'd 've been relieved that someone else was taking an interest . |
| 8 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 9 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 10 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 11 | If it 'd been me and I were gon na put it there , I would have put a window there to look out of . |
| 12 | If it 'd been my box yeah it 's eight three . |
| 13 | Mind you it 's true he'd' 've got more for it probably if it 'd been working but |
| 14 | But , I mean , she 's been down there and must be gone now something has , but I said surely she would have heard from the police if it 'd been |
| 15 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 16 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 17 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 18 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ If it had been us , we 'd have demanded 10 engines . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 21 | A seventeenth-century painted chest which would have cost $1m if it had been American seemed a bargain at one tenth that price . |
| 22 | How much ‘ Bomber ’ Harris would have appreciated Gulf War laser technology if it had been available then ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 25 | This suspiciously hilarious incident sounds as if it had been polished in the telling , as many hooligan incidents are . |
| 26 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 27 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 28 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 29 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 30 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |