Example sentences of "if [pron] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years .
2 I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters .
3 If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it .
4 If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me .
5 If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’
6 ‘ I would n't ever have been so intimate with you if I had had an obligation to someone else .
7 I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first .
8 If I had had the baby , I would never have been able to pick up my career again . ’
9 I must repeat , however , that , if I had had the information in the form in which it was requested , I would have given it .
10 But if someone had had an accident and could not work , his shaikh consulted other elderly men before making a levy , or before drawing on the lineage bank account .
11 She tore up the inheritance of Edward Heath , as if she had had no part in it .
12 One girl asked another if she had had a lesson on computers that afternoon and when her friend replied in the affirmative her short comment was ‘ Dead boring , is n't it ? ’
13 as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning .
14 so their charges would go up if you had to have a contingency fund ?
15 You always reacted as if you had had a leg amputated when people are just … oh , really .
16 It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries .
17 The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years .
18 Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now .
19 No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation .
20 They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions .
21 He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him .
22 She looked up at his face , unattractively blotched by the morning chill , at the grubby stubble , at the two brittle hairs at the corners of his mouth , at the trace of blackened blood in the left nostril , as if he had had a nose bleed , at the eyes , still gummy with sleep .
23 Cameron could sense James Menzies fidgeting and breathing beside him and he wondered if he had had a dram .
24 He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there .
25 He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor .
26 Yet great as his gifts were to us , they would surely have been even greater if he had had the knowledge we now possess and especially the translations of the poets and mystics of the orient .
27 He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ?
28 In any event , the judge awarded the whole of his estimate of the increased price which would have been obtained whereas the correct measure of damage for a failure to disclose the material facts was the loss to the plaintiff of the chance of negotiating an increased price if he had had the information .
29 If he had had the strength he would have broken the flute , but his left hand was too weak to apply the necessary force .
30 Thus , the purpose of a rent review clause is not to revalue the original bargain between the parties , but to give the landlord the income which he would have got , on the terms on which he would have let , if he had had the property in hand on the rent review date .
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