Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] if [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 2 | But it would have been tidier if he could have separated them . |
| 3 | It would have been nice if we could have got together , but the truth is there was n't enough enthusiasm on either side . |
| 4 | oh really because it would have been nice if you could have put something in the corpus about the prisoners who help with the corpus actually |
| 5 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 6 | So maybe , it would have been better if you could have even got down a bit lower and to , to , to get more of it from the horizon . |
| 7 | Dilettante 's answer would have been better if he could have shown that the Wilts case , though apparently relevant , was not conclusive on the question . |
| 8 | It would have been disastrous if we could not continue . |
| 9 | It would have been easier if I could have discussed it with Karen . |
| 10 | It would have been wonderful if we could have been able to afford a gramophone as well . |
| 11 | Well , I suppose that would have been fine if I could have gone along with it , but I was n't quite ready for that . |