Example sentences of "[vb pp] him if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd have named him if he seemed guilty . |
| 3 | I would have told him if I 'd thought there was a cat 's chance in hell he 'd have provided a guard for you — a constable on your doorstep . ’ |
| 4 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 5 | ‘ She might have forgiven him if it had been anyone else , you mean ? ’ |
| 6 | They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street . |
| 7 | He wondered if she would have believed him if he had told the truth . |
| 8 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 9 | It was as simple as if they 'd asked him if he knew a good plumber . |
| 10 | She had sarcastically asked him if he 'd tracked Ryan down in order to make him pay it back , and he 'd said yes . |
| 11 | He remembered that day because Farag had asked him if he had a sister . |
| 12 | ( The other night I had asked him if he did n't think they ought to have the vote in Switzerland , and he said it was irrelevant . ) |
| 13 | I should 've asked him if he knows Marie , cos that 's where she lives now — in Scotland . |
| 14 | However Tolkien disobligingly remarked that he had n't read Ariosto and would n't have liked him if he had ( Biography , p. 218 ) , while Spenser exemplified much that he hated ( see pp. 42–3 above ) . |
| 15 | There is a biography of Jasper Carrot which I can hardly wait not to read , there is a biography of Cliff Richard written by a woman who hugged him once 20 years ago ( ‘ I would have married him if he 'd asked me ’ ) . |
| 16 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |