Example sentences of "if [adv] i have [be] " in BNC.
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1 | If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last . |
2 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
3 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
4 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
5 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
6 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
7 | I should be congratulated not criticized , and if sometimes I 've been a bit unfair , played a bit of a game , that 's life is n't it . |