But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would.
Nick HornbyWhen they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.
Nick HornbyIt was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy.
Nick HornbyAn official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where ‘a club’s rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation’. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word ‘rival’.
Nick HornbyHe was hoping that when this was all over, his spiritual overdraft would have been paid off, and he’d be allowed to use the cash machine again.
Nick HornbyHe really liked this woman. Or, rather, he was really attracted to her, and nothing she had said so far had weakened the attraction.
Nick HornbyDuring the game, we find endless ways of saying that our team needs to score goals while at the same time not letting any in: ‘We need a goal here,’ ‘We don’t want to let one in now,’ and so on. (‘Here’ and ‘now’ are the words intended to indicate a keen understanding of the complex nature of the particular game, but in truth they mean nothing. Teams always need to score, and never want to let one in.)
Nick HornbyAnd what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn’t that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren’t allowed to make anything of themselves because they didn’t go to Eton?
Nick HornbyWhen even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.
Nick HornbyThey were expressions of who he was and what he’d become, and he couldn’t do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his steps back and back and back, until he was fifteen or ten or three years old, and start again.
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