Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 2 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 3 | If I had filled a tanker I would n't have been prosecuted . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 5 | In fact , he is not a great motivator through the actual force of his personality , and if I had to name a weakness that would be it . |
| 6 | IF I HAD to design a retreat for winter-weary travellers who want familiar hotels but in a different civilisation , I 'd invent Marrakech . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had written a script for myself I would n't have changed a thing ’ , he said . |
| 8 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 9 | Then I saw his face in the driving mirror and felt ashamed , as if I had struck a child . |
| 10 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 11 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 12 | If I had possessed a gun that day I would have shot Frank ; that is how bad I felt . |
| 13 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 14 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 15 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 16 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 17 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 19 | If I had to make a comparison , I can only really compare an Aeronca to some of the latest two-seat side-by-side kitplanes like the Avid Flyer . |
| 20 | It would have been a consolation if I had found a mother in Mme Guérigny . |
| 21 | If I had bought a hammer or a chisel |
| 22 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 23 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 24 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 25 | If she had wanted a husband , she could not have found a good reason for refusing to marry him . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 27 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 28 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 29 | Pushing Charlotte home in the dusk , she felt rather exhilarated , as if she had made a discovery . |
| 30 | They 'd have a record if she had made a Will . |