Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] if [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 2 | Several times he witnessed strokes which would have killed or maimed if they had been allowed to connect with flesh and bone . |
| 3 | Mr Martin stood and asked if they had reached a verdict . |
| 4 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |
| 5 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 6 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 7 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 8 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 9 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 10 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 11 | On replying : ‘ Yes , ’ he was reminded that the end of the tax year was approaching and asked if he had considered investing in a pension . |
| 12 | The constable took out his notebook , and asked if anyone had witnessed the incident . |
| 13 | On Saturday 7 March 1719 ( English style ) the Spanish invasion force , consisting of 5000 men , plus some horses and with food and water for a month , sailed from Cadiz in 25 transports , escorted by only five weakly armed warships which would have been outnumbered and out-gunned if they had encountered either of the British squadrons . |
| 14 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |
| 15 | He , it was for the , you know , the , the instructor w would come round and see if you had aimed the thing , it was a tripod sort of thing . |
| 16 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 17 | She felt herself shrinking from him , preparing to fling the papers in his face and run if she had to . |
| 18 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 19 | A few months later Sanders recalled that Lloyd George had " prophesied great unpopularity for the government during the period of demobilisation and said if we had an election in the Spring we might get a Bolshevik Government . |
| 20 | With Angel gone there was no need to humble herself and inquire if he had at last returned to work . |
| 21 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 22 | His son had a heart , the stupid , randy little bastard , and what good were brains and charm if you had a heart ? |
| 23 | I would look at it again , and see if it had been totally destroyed . |
| 24 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 25 | unless he was looking around and see if it had been bumped in the night |
| 26 | He was grateful to Taheb for having sought work for him through Merymose , and wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her . |
| 27 | He looked drawn now , Ruth thought , and wondered if he had ever given her a thought since Seville . |
| 28 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 29 | Lindsey found herself shaking hands with a tall , fair-haired young man and wondered if she had imagined the tension which seemed to be sparking between the two . |
| 30 | She had decided on making her career in industrial nursing after leaving general nursing , even though at first she had had reservations and wondered if she had made the right move . |