Example sentences of "if [pron] had have a [noun sg] " 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 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 ? ’
7 as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning .
8 so their charges would go up if you had to have a contingency fund ?
9 You always reacted as if you had had a leg amputated when people are just … oh , really .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Cameron could sense James Menzies fidgeting and breathing beside him and he wondered if he had had a dram .
16 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 .
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