Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
| 2 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 3 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
| 4 | For instance , if I had written six songs , one on each record , that used the Not Of This Earth technique of one bass note , three chords , pitch axis , it would be quite boring at a concert when you get to the fourth one . |
| 5 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 6 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 7 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 8 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 9 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 10 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 11 | Bird noises faded up as if I had found another TV control . |
| 12 | Many years later , Charles recalled the defection of " the whole people " , the emperor 's capture , the sending of " his wife " ( this , interestingly , is Charles alluding to his own mother ) into exile in Italy , and " the treatment of me , a mere ten-year old , as if I had committed huge crimes " . |
| 13 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 14 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 15 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 16 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 17 | If she had entertained any doubts before , they had gone for ever . |
| 18 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 19 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 20 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 22 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 23 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 24 | ‘ Even if she had stole some wine , ’ Rab said . |
| 25 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 26 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 27 | If you had seen that band drawn up on the parade-ground , with full regalia glittering in the sun , while in front six bugles sounded Retreat and the audience came spontaneously to attention , you 'd have liked it , I 'm sure . |
| 28 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 29 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 30 | If you had asked cosmetic companies ten years ago to stop experimenting on animals they would have replied , ‘ No alternative . ’ |