Example sentences of "have [verb] if it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 2 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 3 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 4 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 5 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 6 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 7 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 8 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 11 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 12 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 13 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 14 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 15 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 16 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |
| 17 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 18 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 19 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 20 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 21 | Not that I 'd have cared if it had gone up . |
| 22 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 23 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 24 | However none of these exhibitions could have happened if it had n't been for the groundbreaking work carried out by Lubaina Himid since the late 70s . |
| 25 | We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution . |
| 26 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 27 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 28 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 29 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 30 | Ronni would n't have minded if it had been a less gracious compliment . |