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Example sentences of "if [pron] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I feel as if my skin has dissolved down there , and it 's a part of you .
2	‘ I knew if my keeper had done that he would have been off , too — it 's the law of the land these days . ’
3	‘ If my plan had worked , it would have been a masterstroke .
4	If my luck has run out … .
5	as if my life had stopped when the glass was started and will only start again when it is done .
6	‘ What if my wife had let them in ?
7	It was a secret — if my parents had known she was going away alone they would have soon put the kybosh on it .
8	I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start .
9	I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said .
10	I could accept the decision by the Referees ' Committee if my marks had gone down .
11	I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message .
12	And er I do n't know whether to it 's it 's the money aspect of it because if my unemployment 's stopped
13	I do feel as if my hands have turned to jelly .
14	Now it was as if my eyes had glimpsed the windows of a dimly lit house .
15	Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us .
16	If my father had wanted me to be a king , why did n't he become king himself ?
17	I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it .
18	But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’
19	I woke the next morning , wondering if my father had come back or not .
20	Southgate was in his cups though Mandeville looked subdued and stared speculatively at me as if my outburst had revealed a side of my character he had not noticed before .
21	Raising it , I glanced at the door to see if my tails had arrived .
22	Any such move makes probable the sudden exposure to new agents ( or at least new strains ) to which children born in the area , even if their parents had moved in , would already have developed some immunity .
23	Children will not be classed as ‘ in priority need ’ by local authorities if their parents have become ‘ intentionally homeless ’ , the Lords ruled last week .
24	There I found an Australian pilot , German co-pilot and Lebanese navigator arguing above the noise of the engines , which sounded as if their exhausts had blown .
25	She asked if their earnings had improved .
26	Farmers may qualify for grants of up to £2 per metre from the Hedgerow Incentive Scheme if their hedges have become overgrown , thin or gappy .
27	The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time .
28	Since they formed in Birmingham way back in 1978 , they have been leading players in the UK 's reggae movement , even if their sound has become rather commercial in recent years .
29	Depressed women were described as onset cases if their symptoms had begun ( at a caseness level ) , at some point during the previous twelve months , and as chronic cases if their symptoms had begun before this .
30	Depressed women were described as onset cases if their symptoms had begun ( at a caseness level ) , at some point during the previous twelve months , and as chronic cases if their symptoms had begun before this .