Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For myself , ’ Mrs Parvis went on , ‘ I 'd have felt more excited like , if it 'd finished lost summer . |
| 2 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 7 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 8 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 9 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 10 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 11 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 12 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 14 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 15 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |
| 16 | He added that if Strathclyde PTE did not continue to have the power to assemble a package of services which involved busy services cross-subsidising off-peak ones , the council would have to spend much more money if it wanted to maintain off-peak services . |
| 17 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 18 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 19 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |