Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They — whoever they were — had underestimated her if they thought she could be cowed into submission by threats and violence . |
| 2 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | He remembered that day because Farag had asked him if he had a sister . |
| 5 | Hughes had asked him if he would help him steal a lorry . |
| 6 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 7 | While he was in opposition , Ted Heath had asked me if I would go to Rhodesia on behalf of the Conservative Party if they were returned to power . |
| 8 | After a while I realized that nobody had asked them if they wanted or needed to learn management skills . |
| 9 | Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror . |
| 10 | He 'd said he was sorry the incident had occurred and had asked her if she 'd like him to make her some Ovaltine . |
| 11 | She had said that before , Maria realised , when they had left the theatre and Luke had asked her if she wanted to get a meal somewhere . |
| 12 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 13 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 14 | Miss Warburton said she had not told him how she felt , but once he had asked her if she loved him . |
| 15 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 16 | If a reader had asked you if she should reveal all in a frank autobiography I think you 'd have advised her not to . |
| 17 | He needed to summon all the devious cunning with which nature had endowed him if he were to escape . |