Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd leaked this myself ? ’ |
| 2 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 3 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 4 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 6 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
| 7 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 8 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 9 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 10 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 11 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 12 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 13 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 14 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 15 | But if she had missed this one , she would be the laughing stock of her class . |
| 16 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 17 | as if she had known this all along but had hoped something different . |
| 18 | Even to allow such images into her mind meant she 'd dropped the barriers too far — something she could n't afford to do if she wanted to survive this experience mentally intact . |
| 19 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 20 | If you had read this I should n't be here this afternoon ! |
| 21 | If you managed to do this , you would earn , indeed almost compel from God , a favourable verdict at the Last Day.It all depended on human effort . |
| 22 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |
| 23 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 24 | ‘ If we had given this young lad the car , people could have come back to us and said we had broken the rules , ’ the hotel owner said . |
| 25 | It looked as if we had won this initial bout but men like Swire Sugden do n't give up that easily . |
| 26 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |
| 27 | We 're just asking , if we chose to do this what would happen from your point of view . |
| 28 | If we wanted to pick this up and said , This was an idea . |
| 29 | What if whoever had done this was still inside the house ? |
| 30 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |