Examples of using "Houvesse" in a sentence and their english translations:
I wish there were another way.
as if there is a curse
I didn't expect that there would be so many people.
There didn't seem to be a problem.
If there were no telephones, it would be inconvenient.
I thought I'd lost you.
- I wish there were more men like Tom.
- I wish that there were more men like Tom.
If it were not for water, no living things could live.
If there were no pessimists, neither would there be any optimists.
It would be great if there was a Japanese edition.
He saw to it that there would be no more interruptions.
If there was no sun, we would not be able to live.
It would be nice if there was a Portuguese version.
I wish there was something else we could do.
- I wish there were some other way.
- I wish there were another way.
Now imagine if there was nothing happening to you
if there weren't things like cars, planes and commerce
I felt as if my life had been shortened.
If it were not for the air, planes could not fly.
If it were not for air and water, nothing could live.
I wish there were more people like you.
We give answers as if there is no more beautiful than this.
- He ate only a little, so there would be something left over for breakfast.
- He didn't eat much, wanting to leave some over for breakfast.
If not for "if" and "however", I would say amen to everything.
If he had been a little more careful, he would have succeeded.
I shouldn't have praised you.
and all the possibilities were made so that there was no disrespect to the Christian religion.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Had it not been for his help, I couldn't have finished the report.
How boring the world would be if there wasn't people better and more powerful than me.
It would be very interesting if, the soonest possible, there would be the possibility to do advanced searches on the Tatoeba database.
And Pharaoh arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.