Example sentences of "if [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If , if right they need to be put . |
2 | If only they realized that she was under strain . |
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 stayed in the little home on the train . |
5 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
6 | ( If only they 'd known that my companion was a convicted killer of rubber plants in an Indian restaurant ) . |
7 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ If only they 'd taken me ! |
10 | ‘ If only they had saved us . |
11 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Licence Revoked was originally going to be the title for this last Bond film , and if only they had . |
14 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | If only they had not let her go out that night . |
22 | If only they had known where she was going . |
23 | If only they had insisted she come home earlier . |
24 | If only they had been stricter with her . |
25 | If only they had done something — anything — differently . |
26 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |
27 | If only they had n't taxed their tendons so fiercely … |
28 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
29 | well there are fifty one law abiding citizens and there are forty nine potential felons if only they had been |
30 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |