Example sentences of "if he [vb past] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 If he felt that his work lay here , it was not for her to question his decision , but she sometimes wished that something might happen to make him change his mind .
2 Even an unscrupulous Sally-Anne could not quite kill her mama off completely — if he thought that her mama had bolted , well , so be it .
3 When he spoke it was in a barely audible voice as if he feared that his words would carry beyond the four walls .
4 How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ?
5 In parliament he was wont to abandon an argument half-completed if he sensed that his point had been made ; the speeches that appear in Hansard were touched up by his staff , and his speeches in the country were given to the press in advance .
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