Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly there just is n't the money to go around , and kids are being made to suffer for long periods of time er for operations which really could be done if only they had the money . |
| 2 | After his death Ralph especially realised what Piggy could have done if only he had been listened to . |
| 3 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 4 | ‘ The things I could do if only I had oodles of cash , ’ she added with an intense longing . |
| 5 | His lips were moving quietly as he mouthed to himself what he would do if ever he had Corbett in his power . |
| 6 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 7 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 8 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 9 | There is every reason to suppose that changes such as those in Fig. 24.4 are intrinsic to the dynamics , not something that could be eliminated if only one had better control of the apparatus . |
| 10 | Given that the Prime Minister told us in January that a recovery had started when patently it had not , will he now apologise , tell us when a recovery will happen under Tory policies and agree with the country that the first step towards saving the jobs of thousands of people is for the Government to lose theirs ? |
| 11 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 12 | Though determined as ever he had more wisdom and caution than he had years ago . |
| 13 | A tricky task seeing as how they had n't yet dropped . |