Sentence examples for if it had rained from inspiring English sources

Playing regulations stipulated that he could do this each morning if it had rained the night before.

If it had rained, the transition back into the regular broadcast booth would have been seamless, Gowdy said.

"It just looked as if it had rained birds," said Tracy Lightfoot, a member of the City Council, declining to speculate on the reason.

There were days at the office when I didn't know whether it was muggy or cool, or if it had rained.

2) It was a very overcast day and if it had rained it would have meant they did not need to use them at all - a good idea when they were as weak a race tyre as they turned out to be in Melbourne.

When on tour his team mates did not ask if it had rained last night, merely "Did Ponny wake during the night?"—legend had it that even the slightest trickle would wake him and have him anguishing over having to bat on the "sticky" in the morning.

If it has rained a lot, you can probably skip a couple of days.

He began the season very strongly and if it hadn't have rained at Worcester on 31 May he'd have become the first player since Graeme Hick in 1988 to score 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.

Where the true bench breaks down into pasture, a greener, wetter landscape closer to the river, it looked as if the sky had rained calves a few weeks earlier.

If it would have rained anyway, without your prayer for rain, then it doesn't seem that your prayer for rain was effective.

What fun to ponder what might have happened at Waterloo, if it hadn't rained heavily on the night of June 18th 1815, or if Xerxes had won at Salamis.