Example sentences of "[subord] if he [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha , guarding his jeans while he changed , admired him more for deciding against them than if he had bought them . |
| 2 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 3 | Well he 's the least of the problem because if he 's got something in the churchyard there 'd be something dated probably . |
| 4 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , ’ said Gus , as proudly as if he had discovered it himself , ‘ what that is ? |
| 6 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 7 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property . |
| 10 | I 'll bet if Fairclough is on flash he wo n't score , if he 's not , watch out Leeds , for if he does score it will be all our own fault as we have the ammunition to stop him . |
| 11 | This was fortunate , for if he had touched me I think I would have gone mad . |