Example sentences of "if [adv] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then if suddenly I have about a tenth of them entries . |
| 2 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 3 | If only they had not let her go out that night . |
| 4 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If only they had n't taxed their tendons so fiercely … |
| 7 | If only they had n't interfered she might have been let off minute by minute her situation worsened . |
| 8 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 9 | ‘ We keep thinking ‘ If only they had n't ’ . |
| 10 | Yet each knows perfectly well that , if only they had both played COOPERATE , both would have obtained the relatively high reward for mutual cooperation ( $300 in our example ) . |
| 11 | If only we had n't cut down those trees the view would be better . |
| 12 | There is every reason to suppose that changes such as those in Fig. 24.4 are intrinsic to the dynamics , not something that could be eliminated if only one had better control of the apparatus . |
| 13 | If only she 'd never met him — had never experienced the exquisite sweetness of being held against his heart — she would n't now be crushed under the weight of this unbearable sorrow . |
| 14 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 15 | ‘ If only you 'd never married that whore . ’ |
| 16 | You have a great movie here if only you had n't miscast the lead . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't stop singing that now , if only you had n't of said that |
| 18 | If only I had n't had that last cup of hot chocolate . |
| 19 | ‘ If only I had n't called it off she might still be here . ’ |
| 20 | If only I had n't said this , that or the other . |
| 21 | ‘ Damn , if only I had n't had that wine and walked home — well , the man 's a fool . |
| 22 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 23 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 24 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 25 | If only he had not caught nits and been sent home from school , fallen in the beck , lost his shoes , been attacked by Rosie or injured his hand just because he was too cowardly to follow Buddie 's instructions . |
| 26 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 27 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 28 | If only he had n't opened his mouth . |
| 29 | If only he had n't sold to that dreadful man , you would n't be having such a miserable time . ’ |
| 30 | But if only he had n't told her . |