Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going .
2 Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail .
3 His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press .
4 As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book .
5 He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself .
6 Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures .
7 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
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