Example sentences of "if he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If he had asked . |
| 33 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 34 | It was n't as if he had asked for a fee , he had gone to the school for nothing , out of the goodness of his heart . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | If he had asked her she could n't have answered . |
| 37 | You know , would n't it be nice if he had asked me out . |
| 38 | It was as if he had fainted in his sleep and the recovery from the faint made the level of sleep seem reality by comparison . |
| 39 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 40 | Although I have to admit , if he had stared so at me … ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Thank you for reminding me , ’ he said , dropping her hand as if he had grasped something distasteful . |
| 42 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 43 | If he had realized this , he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a " Not-hawk " - that is , anything from a wren to a pheasant — and continued on his way up the slope . |
| 44 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 45 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 46 | The erotic effect was electrifying ; it could not have been greater if he had plunged his hand into her crotch . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | The sergeant wondered what he would have thought of Nicola if he had met her when she was alive . |
| 51 | If he had kept his mouth shut I would still be eating rancid meat and plotting my own way out of Paris . |
| 52 | She felt raw — not physically , except where she had scoured her skin in the bath , but inside , in her soul , as if he had reached in and desecrated some sacred part of her . |
| 53 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 54 | If he had to wait all day for Master to come home , that was all right . |
| 55 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 56 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 57 | ‘ All right , ’ said Gabriel blithely , as if he had noticed nothing wrong . |
| 58 | ‘ What does Anpetuwi mean ? ’ he asked her , conversationally , as if he had noticed either the lull in the action , or the relaxing of some tension in her . |
| 59 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 60 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |