Example sentences of "if he had [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 2 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 3 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 4 | She had declared that Edwin must henceforward run the Ashwell estates , as if he had already come into his inheritance . |
| 5 | If he had ever existed outside her overheated imagination . |
| 6 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 7 | Durkheim belonged to that contemplative school of armchair theorists epitomized by Sir James Frazer , who is supposed to have solemnly replied ‘ God forbid ! ’ to the innocent questioner who asked if he had ever lived amongst ‘ savages ’ . |
| 8 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 9 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 10 | ARAZI returned to the racecourse as if he had never left at Saint-Cloud yesterday , cruising home by five lengths in the Prix Omnium II . |
| 11 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 12 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |