Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 2 | Er and I , I think I , I should have said if er la you know after I 'd had my own , enjoy your babies while they 're young because they grow up so quickly , whereas before it was a case of , do n't pick them up when they , you know , if they cry leav let them cry . |
| 3 | The intrusion of the bureaucratic considerations is likely to lead to solutions which differ in many cases from those an individual should have adopted if left to himself . |
| 4 | So this is that 's why these do n't have the dimples on them , whereas they should have done if they 'd You see so there 's al there 's incredibly subtle things that you can you can pick up . |
| 5 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 6 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 7 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 8 | Chant 's sarcasm was n't lost on Estabrook ; nor could he resist the recognition that this was not a game he should have entered if he 'd hoped to stay lily-white . |
| 9 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 10 | They must have known if proceedings were taken for penalties it would be open to them in such proceedings to raise the question as to whether the duties were payable or not , as they did , in fact , in 1906 . |
| 11 | Looking at City 's first-half performance at The Dell , he must have wondered if any change was needed at all . |
| 12 | Plaudits are nice ; this time , however , Mr Patten must have wondered if he was not being killed by kindness . |
| 13 | After they lost their first two matches those fans must have wondered if once again Leeds were going to flatter to deceive . |
| 14 | after that , and then this , the fans must have wondered if they were destined to be watching a nil-nil draw . |
| 15 | MANY night-clubbers must have wondered if , when the clocks went back from 2am to 1am on a Sunday morning , they were entitled to an extra hour of fun . |
| 16 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 17 | It might 've helped if Ivor had bothered to be here . ’ |
| 18 | — He 'll have panicked if I know him , that Warden . |
| 19 | ‘ Paint ? ’ he queried , as though it was an item he 'd never come across , much as he might have sounded if she 'd said she was going to buy a giraffe , she thought on a spurt of amusement . |
| 20 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 21 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 22 | The answer to that seemingly simple question depends on what Tory tabloid readers might have done if they had not read Tory tabloids . |
| 23 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 24 | She saw him blush , the way Mike might have done if someone told him his salary at the bank was inadequate . |
| 25 | Scarlet did n't argue as she might have done if she had n't had a large vodka . |
| 26 | " I might have done if Dr. Mac was still there . |
| 27 | This meant that an individual book took longer to print than it might have done if all the workmen had concentrated on it alone ; but also that , by utilizing plant and labour less wastefully , all the books could be printed in less time altogether , and at less cost , than they would have been by serial production . |
| 28 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 29 | ‘ I might have done if I could have got my arms free , ’ Leith replied , and took another sip of her coffee . |
| 30 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |