Example sentences of "if he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan had no family responsibilities and so could live away from home for two or three years and could return home every eight weeks or more often if he chose to pay his own fare . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you for reminding me , ’ he said , dropping her hand as if he had grasped something distasteful . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , ’ said Gabriel blithely , as if he had noticed nothing wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 5 | This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous . |
| 6 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 7 | On both occasions he had glanced up , as if he had felt her startled gaze resting on him . |
| 8 | ‘ As a party guest , ’ he added quickly , as if he had guessed her timid and disbelieving interpretation of the word . |
| 9 | I wondered idly if he had done something wrong and been demoted . |
| 10 | If he had taken his own rule seriously , he would have found out that DRG has a very modest self-service canteen at its Bristol head office . |
| 11 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 12 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 13 | Caroline stared at him , waiting for him to smile , to give some hint that he 'd made a joke she 'd simply not understood , but he only went on looking at her , his face as cool and composed as if he 'd done nothing more than offer to top up her sherry . |
| 14 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 15 | If he 'd showed us some we would n't have even had it cut . |
| 16 | His mouth twisted , as if he 'd tasted something unpleasant . |
| 17 | I wonder what my father would have said if he 'd known his illegitimate son might yet marry one of the Kinmuires . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Lunch , ’ Madeleine said as if he 'd suggested something outrageous . |
| 19 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 20 | Again he hesitated , as if he wanted to say something more ; but he evidently decided against it . |
| 21 | And he was confused by his enjoyment of Rain 's company now when he ought , if he wanted to spare himself those memories , to have avoided it . |
| 22 | He did kiss me back then , as if he wanted to press his wretched thin inhibited mouth right through my head . |
| 23 | I have to say , if he wanted to make me mad , he was one hundred per cent successful . |
| 24 | Claudia twisted away from him , conscious that if he wanted to keep her close to him she had n't a chance . |
| 25 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 26 | If he needed to revise his original idea he made use of Process white or cut holes and glued new bits of paper together . |
| 27 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 28 | What if he refused to have anything more to do with her ? |
| 29 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 30 | But even if he did save his electronic jottings , would they be readable by the end of his lifetime , or would magnetic deterioration plus hardware and software obsolescence combine to make the efforts of retaining the file futile ? |