Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] they have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 2 | More than once they had thoughtlessly consumed the ingredients of his dinner … |
| 3 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 4 | If only they had not let her go out that night . |
| 5 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 6 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 7 | If only they had n't taxed their tendons so fiercely … |
| 8 | If only they had n't interfered she might have been let off minute by minute her situation worsened . |
| 9 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 10 | ‘ We keep thinking ‘ If only they had n't ’ . |
| 11 | Yet each knows perfectly well that , if only they had both played COOPERATE , both would have obtained the relatively high reward for mutual cooperation ( $300 in our example ) . |
| 12 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 13 | When we looked at the Telegraph and the Times things seem so samey , there 's just this uniform effect everything seeming to look the same whereas here they 've really used such a variety of styles the curly , the straight , the blocked plus your black blocks across the bottom . |
| 14 | Syringes are on sale at most dealing locations , though sometimes they have already been used and the package resealed . |
| 15 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |