Example sentences of "if it had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 3 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 4 | If it had done nine thousand five hundred miles , how much would we take off ? hey ? |
| 5 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 8 | If it had become axiomatic that the author ( or ‘ scriptor ’ in Ricardou 's terminology ) had become decentred and that the novel could not represent any psychological or social reality , then the origins of a text could only be found in the self-generating aspect of language itself . |
| 9 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 10 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 11 | If it had stopped innovating , the match would then be equal . |
| 12 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 13 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Dad , what if it had gone rotten ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Even if it had gone rotten . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 17 | It was a black and white picture , superficially scratched , and curling at the edges , as if it had received much handling . |
| 18 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 19 | Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money . |
| 20 | She had never really forgotten any of it , of course , how could she forget something that had consumed her so completely , even if it had lasted such a short time ? |
| 21 | A flicker of rebellion stole into her mind and , as if it had needed that impetus , one clear thought struggled free . |
| 22 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 23 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |