Example sentences of "if he had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’
2 He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet .
3 She felt as if he had hit her .
4 She was shaking as she lurched back , almost as if he had thrust her away from him .
5 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 .
6 It was as if he had slapped her in the face .
7 She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations .
8 If he had to go I think that was the way he would have wanted it
9 But if he had to go he would go alone .
10 You know , would n't it be nice if he had asked me out .
11 The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate .
12 In any case , she was too busy attacking the contents of her briefcase when she got home to have gone out with him , even if he had asked her — which he had n't .
13 If he had asked her she could n't have answered .
14 The sergeant wondered what he would have thought of Nicola if he had met her when she was alive .
15 ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time .
16 Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different .
17 She did not know if he had believed her .
18 ‘ Even if he had desired it , he could scarcely have done more to ensure that the Khans would support Nogai 's will . ’
19 I think he even said that in one of his last interviews , at 27 , that if he had to do it all over again , he would n't .
20 He said he hoped that if he had to do it he could count on me .
21 Probably more than that , but that , he would n't mind if he had to do it .
22 As the two sections of the bridge rose majestically into the air somehow it felt as if he had arranged it especially for her .
23 He was beginning to wonder if he had treated her unfairly .
24 But her whole body , strained and bruised as if he had beaten her , that was the monument to his reality .
25 If he had loved her , or begun to love her , which she still found utterly unbelievable , her accusations would have successfully killed it .
26 but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years .
27 And if he had felt them , might have done something about them .
28 She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light .
29 In this case that individual shall not be chargeable to tax under s740 by reference to relevant income which is such that if he had received it he would not , by reason of his being so domiciled , have been chargeable to income tax in respect of it .
30 The relevant provision is s740(5) which reads thus : An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not , in respect of any benefit not received in the United Kingdom , be chargeable to tax under [ s740 ] by reference to relevant income which is such that if he had received it he would not , by reason of his being so domiciled , have been chargeable to income tax in respect of it ; and [ s65(6)– ( 9 ) ] shall apply for the purposes of [ s740(5) ] as they would apply for the purposes of [ s65(5) ] if the benefit were income arising from possessions outside the United Kingdom .
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