Example sentences of "if [pron] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 2 | If I had confined myself to initiating ‘ creative drama ’ or ‘ improvisation ’ , I might well have remained satisfied with his participation for he was indeed meeting all the requirements of dramatic playing . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're remaining in that bed for at least another twenty-four hours if I have to tie you to it . ’ |
| 5 | But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey . |
| 6 | If she 's invited you to her house that 's up to you in n it ? |
| 7 | If you had to explain anything to someone else , then there had to be something you were both sure of , some place to start , and Masklin was n't sure that there was any place like that around Shrub . |
| 8 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 've allowed yourself to be persuaded either by Lotta 's silver tongue or her golden purse to attempt to defraud me — then your best course of action now would be to make for the door before I remember that the blood of the ancient Vikings still runs in my veins ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We leave again in the morning , rain or no , even if you have to tie me to my horse . |
| 11 | Right , so that 's the digression over and done with it 's pretty fascinating stuff okay , you 'll you 'll need that in the in erm in your Q M project if you have to apply one to a particular problem . |
| 12 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 13 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 14 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |
| 15 | If they 'd glued him to my back he could n't have slept |
| 16 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 17 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 18 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 19 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 20 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 21 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 22 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 23 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 24 | If he 'd got her to that state , why was she drinking coffee ? |
| 25 | " You 'd be wasting your time — if he 's made it to Dublin , then he 's vanished . |