Example sentences of "if he [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 2 | Wondering , beyond a doubt , if he would ever see the little boy again . |
| 3 | as if he 'd even have a chance of it anyway |
| 4 | I 'm not hoping for a shell-casing , you know , but if he 'd just get a fucking nose-bleed or something , I 'd be a happy man . ’ |
| 5 | If he can actually make an effort to write in and persecute gays and ‘ ethnics ’ , then it is he who is spreading a terrible disease and ‘ twisting young kids ’ minds ’ . |
| 6 | And if he can really put the icing on the cake of this remarkable recovery story by winning , he will be the toast of the Portsmouth greyhound racing fraternity — where he 's become a great favourite over the years . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now announce the results of his consideration of the case for the posthumous pardon of Derek Bentley . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will now take the National Grid Company back into state ownership . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now recognise the Government of Croatia . |
| 10 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Socialistic ’ rather than socialist , he tells himself he would belong to a political party if he could just find the right one to join . |
| 13 | Simon shook his head , as if he could scarcely believe the depth of Marie 's stupidity . |
| 14 | He felt that if he could only solve the button problem something else would be explained . |
| 15 | Cunningham had strengthened his belief that if he could only follow the clues for which Heather 's photographs were somehow emblems he would find the truth — and Heather with it . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , he continued to prevaricate even as the Dec. 20 deadline for registering as a candidate for the New Hampshire contest approached , while indicating that he might yet join the contest for his party 's presidential nomination if he could satisfactorily resolve the current impasse between himself and the state legislature over the budget . |
| 17 | It 's not a fucking beard , that 's not what a beard l if he could ever grow a beard like that I 'd bloody give him |
| 18 | When Poindexter somewhat curtly told him so , Ledeen asked if he could still keep the elements of the Grand Plan simmering along . |
| 19 | Also , there s a clause in the sale which means Leeds paying Brighton 100grand if he should ever get an England cap … nothing about an Irish cap : - ) ) ) |