Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | If I had decided to call the Division again , up on the screen would have gone the sign ’ Division Off ’ and Members would have drifted away . |
2 | Afterwards I wondered if I had offered to paint the name of her firm on the coffin for all to see , it might have helped her business and consequently her attitude towards my custom . |
3 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
4 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
5 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |