Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 2 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps if they had got at Sir Oswald it would not have been so jolly , ’ Sir Patrick said acidly . |
| 4 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 5 | Well if we could send that with the amenities and perhaps if they 've got any , we ca n't say that er , I view this as very much , we 've , we 've got a platform here . |
| 6 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 7 | Open the door of the wardrobe , put a wrapper over the big one , put it in the back , then sandwich another one , a picture in perhaps if you 've run out of things like that , till you get to the front , close the door , and you 've got it all packed away neat out of the way . |
| 8 | Erm perhaps if you 've got a pencil handy here . |
| 9 | Perhaps if I 'd tried one-one-five , or five-five-one … or five-one-one , or five-five-five … |
| 10 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 11 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 13 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
| 14 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 15 | Perhaps if he 'd realized . |
| 16 | I wondered idly if he had done something wrong and been demoted . |
| 17 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
| 18 | Manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We would have got into the match better if we 'd scored from that penalty . |
| 19 | Esther could not have planned that particular episode better if she had intended it . |
| 20 | I think I could bear losing you a line better if you had belonged to me , even for a short while . " |
| 21 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 24 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 25 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 26 | The respite was not to last however for , just as she heard the guards wondering aloud if they had hit her , someone on one of the freighters pointed her out with a cry . |
| 27 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 28 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 29 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 30 | Just raised slightly does n't it yes and obviously if you 've got fifty people and you do n't have a microphone or anything then it becomes even more so . |