Example sentences of "if there [vb past] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
| 2 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 3 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 4 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 5 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 7 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 8 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 9 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 10 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 11 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 12 | A petition organized by the Jewish people 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism collected 77,000 signatures in two days ; it was felt that if there had been more time over a quarter of a million would have signed against Mosley 's proposed demonstration . |
| 13 | Mick is convinced that if there had been more staff available the attack might never have happened . |
| 14 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 15 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 16 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 17 | Even if there had been another big story , it would have to be very big indeed to be bigger than this one ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If there had been another — any other — I would have backed him , not you . ’ |
| 19 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 21 | She wondered if there had been some procedural delay in charging Theo Sykes . |
| 22 | Endemic to that problem , even if there had been some certainty about previous spends , is the unpredictability about future trends : ten unforeseen multi-handicapped users can throw budgets completely out of kilter . |
| 23 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 24 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 25 | Intriguing but unimportant differences were that the Earth spun much faster in those early days — so the days and nights were much shorter ; and the moon was much closer , so it would have appeared vast in the sky ( if there had been any creature to observe it ) and the tides would have been far more dramatic . |
| 26 | If there had been any money in the first place . |
| 27 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 28 | I wanted to find out if there had been any mistakes , so I asked Ron if he had spotted any . |
| 29 | I was particularly interested to hear if there had been any changes in the condition of skin , nails and hair . |
| 30 | I asked Clem if there had been any other jingle sessions where he 'd had to recreate an original . |