Example sentences of "if i had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had filled a tanker I would n't have been prosecuted . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I had written a script for myself I would n't have changed a thing ’ , he said . |
| 3 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 4 | Then I saw his face in the driving mirror and felt ashamed , as if I had struck a child . |
| 5 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 6 | It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart . |
| 7 | If I had possessed a gun that day I would have shot Frank ; that is how bad I felt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 13 | It would have been a consolation if I had found a mother in Mme Guérigny . |
| 14 | If I had bought a hammer or a chisel |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |