Example sentences of "[vb past] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubted if he 'd heard . |
| 2 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 3 | I just asked if he 'd got the other half of this card |
| 4 | The superintendent asked if he thought Nicola could do the job better . |
| 5 | Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 Asked if he thought the fans demonstrating outside the court were representative of Spurs supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 6 | I asked if he knew what had happened to her . |
| 7 | She asked if he knew a ‘ vile jacobin villain ’ who had led astray a young man from her parish called Burnett . |
| 8 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |
| 10 | Louis Gerstner received a lesson on Friday on just how tough it will be to lead IBM Corp in the midst of its economic woes , as he was showered with difficult questions about his qualifications to lead a computer company , Dow Jones & Co reports : Gerstner was also asked to explain why he left RJR to lead IBM — ‘ I thought this was an extraordinary opportunity , ’ he said , and asked if he felt he had completed his job at RJR , Gerstner responded ‘ I do n't think the job is ever finished as chief of a large company . ’ |
| 11 | When Leo told me , I asked if he had been able to give the message . |
| 12 | At first Johnson denied it , in the sincere belief that he had not taken illegal substances , but when the doctor asked if he had taken Reactivin , Johnson endearingly replied in his strong Fife accent ‘ Aye , but they 're no drugs . ’ |
| 13 | I asked if he had ever told his wife or anyone else about this before and his reply was , ‘ No ’ . |
| 14 | The next morning Johanna 's sister , Emma , asked if he had seen her . |
| 15 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 16 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 17 | Durkheim belonged to that contemplative school of armchair theorists epitomized by Sir James Frazer , who is supposed to have solemnly replied ‘ God forbid ! ’ to the innocent questioner who asked if he had ever lived amongst ‘ savages ’ . |
| 18 | In New York , somebody asked if he had named his company after the Virgin Islands . |
| 19 | He gave her some more champagne and she asked if he had children . |
| 20 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 21 | She asked if he had left the boardroom before or after the altercation with his wife at the party . |
| 22 | While waiting , I asked if he had many riverside cases . |
| 23 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 24 | On replying : ‘ Yes , ’ he was reminded that the end of the tax year was approaching and asked if he had considered investing in a pension . |
| 25 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 26 | Mr Pinochet junior , asked if he used his father 's name to get business , replied : ‘ One does not invoke the name of God . ’ |
| 27 | I asked if he wanted a drink . |
| 28 | After a moment 's pause , Julia asked if he wanted her to go to the telegraph office for him . |
| 29 | I spoke to Michael at Adel and asked if he remembered how he felt that day forty years ago . |
| 30 | I rang up my old man this morning and asked if he remembered Dickie Fishbane at school , and he exploded and started bellowing about degenerates and scoundrels . |