Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
2 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
3 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
4 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
5 | It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck . |
6 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
7 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
8 | And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out . |
9 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
10 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
11 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
12 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
13 | Because er we 've done sort of I must Where did I write that if I 've lost that list , I suppose to keep Erm , Ron , tin and then you 've got hankies did n't you ? |
14 | What 's more , 'e 's callin' on me late tonight to find out if I 've 'ad another go and if I 've earned the quid . ’ |
15 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
16 | I do n't know if I 've got that fortnight 's holiday pay to come or what . |
17 | Now , what I do then , is , because I know this is going to happen , when I 'm planning my month , if I 've got some days towards the end of the month where I have no claimants whatsoever , I put the asterisks in there and that 's a catch up day . |
18 | I do n't know if I 've got any answers to that really . |
19 | Well let's see if I 've got any money . |
20 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
21 | I 'll see if I c if I 've got any paper lying about the house . |
22 | got to come anyway , er I do n't know if I 've got enough money to bloody pay him , it 's a bad week |
23 | If I 've got enough money . |
24 | Mm , very much so , the only thing I do n't like , I do n't like the , that pink against them , those blinds now , do n't know if I 've got enough material to cover them . |
25 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
26 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
27 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
28 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
29 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
30 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |