Example sentences of "if [indef pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least if no-one has done the job before , anything you do will be an improvement ! ’ |
| 2 | So if everyone 's got a gun |
| 3 | From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away . |
| 4 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |
| 5 | Ibn Fayoud half closed his eyes as if someone had turned a knife in his guts . |
| 6 | He felt as if his entire arm and hand were ablaze ; as if someone had turned a blowtorch on them . |
| 7 | Maximilian laughed as if someone had made a joke . |
| 8 | If someone had written a letter like that to her , she would quite probably be floating high above the assorted pickles and jams at this very moment on a pin , fluffy cloud , with a thousand invisible voices murmuring music into her ears . |
| 9 | He was in a state of minor shock , as if someone had kicked the chocks away . |
| 10 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 11 | Corbett felt his head and neck tense as if someone had slipped an iron helm over his hair . |
| 12 | But if someone had had an accident and could not work , his shaikh consulted other elderly men before making a levy , or before drawing on the lineage bank account . |
| 13 | It was freezing inside the huge building ; it was as if someone had sucked every ounce of warm air from the interior and replaced it with icy breath . |
| 14 | Well , you could have felt the atmosphere in the room relax as if someone had opened a window , letting in the cool summer breeze . |
| 15 | The rain came suddenly and a hot wind , as if someone had opened a furnace door , hurled it against the car . |
| 16 | It had hurt him , as if someone had smashed a fist into his own face . |
| 17 | She felt as if someone had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer , but did n't fall off her stool . |
| 18 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 19 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |
| 20 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 21 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
| 22 | At the moment his shoulders simply felt bowed , as if someone had laid a yoke across them . |
| 23 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 24 | Geoffrey felt as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water over him . |
| 25 | There was a tapping noise at the shutters , as if someone had thrown a handful of pebbles against them . |
| 26 | Pascoe felt a little rush of nausea , as if someone had pulled a spigot in his gut . |
| 27 | He had two or three minor cuts and grazes on his cheeks ; they looked as if someone had pulled a fork through the flesh . |
| 28 | Schmidt took a short step backwards , then his legs went as if someone had pulled a string . |
| 29 | I do n't think he 'd have noticed if someone had dropped a set of kitchen units on his head from 30,000 feet . |
| 30 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |