Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] if [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 2 | Perhaps she would have come sooner if she had . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 6 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 7 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 8 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 9 | The sun would have shone brighter if yourself had been there . |
| 10 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 11 | I probably would have stayed longer if I had n't fallen in love with Isobel . |
| 12 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 13 | Bush might have spoken differently if he had known Clinton would be running in 1992 . |
| 14 | She liked the way he shuddered and groaned , docile as the pets that once had surrounded her and Sycorax and who would have submitted likewise if she had chosen to maltreat them . |
| 15 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 16 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |