Example sentences of "if he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was silent he came towards me , took my hands , and said with a formal air as if he had prepared this speech , ‘ I 'm so sorry I upset you . |
| 2 | If he had to wait all day for Master to come home , that was all right . |
| 3 | He would not , I am sure , have understood the significance of the convolvulus ; or , if he had made any effort , he would still have got it wrong . |
| 4 | Dougal glanced at her face , wondering if he had imagined that note of amused satisfaction in her voice . |
| 5 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |
| 6 | He looked as if he had heard better ideas . |
| 7 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 8 | Prime Minister John Major could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had followed that advice over David Mellor , the former Heritage Minister . |
| 9 | If he had soaked this magic in as a child , then the faint outlines of Xanadu could be discerned . |
| 10 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 11 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |
| 12 | If he had to make that list of horrible moments , Masklin would have put this one at the top . |
| 13 | ‘ If he had taken that product , he would also have tested positive those other days as well , ’ Grollet said . |
| 14 | The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity . |
| 15 | Thus a defendant who has no knowledge of the falsity ( and was not reckless as to it ) when the brochure was published , could still lie guilty if he had acquired that knowledge before the brochure was subsequently read . |
| 16 | The reader can judge for himself whether his comprehension would have been fuller if he had known this topic . |
| 17 | Owen half-realized this and if he had had any sense would have shut up , but Mahmoud 's moods blew up very suddenly out of an apparently clear sky and once again he was slow in reacting . |
| 18 | If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen . |
| 19 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 20 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 21 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 22 | If he had had any doubts about this , the Queen 's attitude must have set his mind at rest : she had invested , on a commercial basis , in Hawkins 's slave-trading and , less openly , she invested in Drake 's plans for a non-governmental attack on Spain . |
| 23 | If he had had any doubts about that her expression dispelled them . |
| 24 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 25 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 26 | It was as if he had released some dark and terrible secret which had been boiling within him . |
| 27 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 28 | She wondered if he 'd kissed many girls , just because they were pretty and expected it . |
| 29 | ‘ Join us , ’ she whispered , and then two things happened ; there was a sharp pain , almost as if he 'd swallowed broken glass , as she started to take her hand away , and in that same moment the generator missed another beat and caused the lights to drop for barely a fraction of a second . |
| 30 | He looked as if he 'd taken both barrels into his chest at very close range . |