Example sentences of "if it had [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies .
2 The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged .
3 It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated .
4 If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street .
5 If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me .
6 It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling .
7 If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped .
8 A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free .
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