Example sentences of "if [adv] they have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 2 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 3 | If only they 'd started when they were young like himself , there might have been some hope for them . |
| 4 | ‘ If only they 'd taken me ! |
| 5 | ( If only they 'd known that my companion was a convicted killer of rubber plants in an Indian restaurant ) . |
| 6 | If only they 'd had as much sex as Pulp , this childish dry wank might have half a hint of the lascivious , mobile intercourse it so pathetically promises . |
| 7 | If only they had possessed just a little more of that rare commodity , plus the assistance of a blind man with an abacus , it might not have taken both channels until 1.30 in the morning to start predicting an absolute majority for Mr Major . |
| 8 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 9 | ‘ If only they had saved us . |
| 10 | If only they had insisted she come home earlier . |
| 11 | If only they had done something — anything — differently . |
| 12 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 15 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |
| 16 | If only they had fought , screamed at one another , gone their separate ways , even had lovers … anything but the sterility of it all , a sterility that had finally been injected into everything they touched . |
| 17 | If only they had known where she was going . |
| 18 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 19 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |
| 20 | If Labour councils had listened to the advice of the Audit Commission , if historically they had collected rents , rates and the community charge , we should not be faced with our present difficulties over local government finance . |