Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] if he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It crossed my mind that if he had changed his opinions it might be partly because the squalor and expense of the flat — made worse by my bad housekeeping — had begun to get him down . |
| 2 | Why ca nt they realise for a second that if he had been playing , maybe they would have won all 6 matches and pissed on all of the sides ? |
| 3 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 4 | He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself . |
| 5 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 6 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 7 | Was it not sheer arrogant complacency for the right hon. Gentleman to tell the National Economic Development Council at its recent meeting that if he had known before that there would be a fall of 15 per cent . |
| 8 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 9 | It seems a reasonable guess that if he had eaten bear he would have commented on such ipsophagy . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no doubt that if he had been fit , he would have played at Colchester . |
| 11 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |