Example sentences of "if i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 2 | If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 4 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 5 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 6 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had not loved him , I should have left him , ’ Laura said . |
| 8 | In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’ |
| 9 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 10 | Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was . |
| 11 | ‘ Angel — I would not have married you if I had not known that , after all , there is a way out for you … only I hoped you would never … |
| 12 | A number of mourners were quite abusive after the service and if I had not found the funeral so moving I would of asked one or two to step into the vestry . |
| 13 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 14 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 15 | I might have learnt to like Stephen Fry 's version of Jeeves on television , if I had not read those maddening articles in which he was eager to give away my money in order to soothe his conscience . |
| 16 | I would be failing in my duty to the school if I had not read it . ’ |
| 17 | I would find the hon. Lady 's argument more credible if I had not experienced the difficulties of trying to remember , when on Tyneside to talk about Tyneside . |
| 18 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 19 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 20 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 21 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 22 | She knew he was thinking : If I had not put so much of myself into this house , perhaps I 'd leave . |
| 23 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 24 | I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already . |
| 25 | I suspect it would n't have happened if I had n't lost an important case , important to me anyway . |
| 26 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
| 27 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 29 | If I had n't made it , I would n't have put it down to my colour . |
| 30 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |