Example sentences of "if he [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if he shot away the locks and released the captive kids now , they had nowhere to go . |
| 2 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 3 | The devil had the audacity to grin at her , as if he knew precisely the fires he had lit inside the centre of the earth . |
| 4 | However in many ways , Caulfield is the complete opposite of Lucy Snowe ; where she is quiet and retiring , and hides her feelings , Holden speaks his ; for example , he will strike up a conversation with anyone he meets — at one point in the book , Holden asks his taxi-driver if he knows where the ducks in Central Park go when their lake freezes ! |
| 5 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |