Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said I would have asked you if I had had any trying to find trousers awake . |
| 32 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 33 | I suppose I would , too , if I had to serve all the creeps that come in here every night . ’ |
| 34 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 35 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 36 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 37 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 38 | If I had to face such a situation again , I 'd be very careful if there was a storm around . |
| 39 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 40 | Bird noises faded up as if I had found another TV control . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 ) |
| 44 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 45 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 46 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 47 | If I wanted to copy all of the department twenty two files to the , the A disk , the floppy disk . |
| 48 | I went on an introductory course with ParAvion in Wiltshire to find out if I liked paragliding any better . |
| 49 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 50 | But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money . |
| 51 | and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ? |
| 52 | Jamie could have been saved if someone had done this . |
| 53 | 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 |
| 54 | ‘ She would have taken the cat with her if she 'd done that . ’ |
| 55 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 56 | When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching . |
| 57 | " I phoned one of my neighbours to find out if she 'd heard any noise from our flat . |
| 58 | Probably he made some useful friends in Bremen ; Mina said he was always asking her if she 'd heard any interesting gossip at her musical soirées . |
| 59 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 60 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |