Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 2 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 3 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 4 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 5 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 6 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 7 | If you 've got more swallows , do more flies get eaten ? |
| 8 | And if you 've got more time , for them to eat , do more flies get eaten ? |
| 9 | If you 'd taken more care … ’ |
| 10 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |
| 11 | If we had included more papers in the sample the coverage might have appeared more dense , but nevertheless it is clear that it is a minority of unusual cases which get most press exposure . |
| 12 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 13 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 14 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 15 | In their defence , administration officials reply that if they had used more force — for example , to block a third road used by Noriega 's reinforcements -there would have been an unacceptable risk to American troops and Panamanian civilians . |
| 16 | If he 's had more time between the engine signing off and the aircraft hitting the ground , he could probably have dumped the drop tanks and jettisoned the canopy . |
| 17 | It feels as if he has met more children than any other group of the population during the campaign . |
| 18 | Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone . |