Example sentences of "if he [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a member of the wealthy middle class , Darwin had a social position that he might well forfeit if he became identified with the supposedly atheistical concept of transmutation . |
| 2 | She would have preferred it if he had remained in the living-room . |
| 3 | He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source . |
| 4 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 5 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 6 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 7 | If he had played in the match he would have been the least accurate driver , the player missing the most greens in regulation and the worst bunker player on the team . |
| 8 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
| 9 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 10 | If he had offended against the Church he was ready to give satisfaction . |
| 11 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 12 | It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century . |
| 13 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 14 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 15 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 16 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 17 | It seems a reasonable conjecture that , if he had known about the decree , he would have acted on it , or at least given reasons for not acting on it . |
| 18 | This came in January 1991 , with the arrival on the scene of licensed engineer Bob Eatwell , who admits that if he had known of the multitude of technical and administrative problems that he faced , would have walked out of the Rochester workshop , into sanity ! |
| 19 | By s.2(1) the accused is not dishonest if he : ( a ) believes he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property ; ( b ) believes that the victim would have consented to the appropriation of the property , if he had known of the circumstances ; ( c ) finds property , when the owner can not reasonably be found . |
| 20 | Even if he had known of the switch , the victim might indeed still have bought . |
| 21 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 22 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 23 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 24 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 25 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 26 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 27 | If he 'd started in the early ‘ thirties , when we were courting and when the Depression was really biting , then he 'd have done all right . |
| 28 | When her sight cleared , she saw Adam on his feet , off balance , as if he 'd started round the table towards her . |
| 29 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 30 | If he wanted to join in the group , then he could . ' |