Example sentences of "[prep] if [pers pn] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly true that now , when at last it looked as if we might have our prahu , an increasing number of extremely sinister nakodas were approaching us with offers to take us to the Aru Islands . |
| 2 | It looks as if we might have to pull back behind the Crozat Canal and hold St Simon . |
| 3 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 4 | Rather , it looks as if we will have to wait until the end of 1991 before we get any dramatic improvement . |
| 5 | It now looks as if we will have try again . ’ |
| 6 | As for the farm butter , it is being borne away by the purchasers in the great baskets which look as if they might have been used by the Scarlet Pimpernel to smuggle refugee aristos out of Paris . |
| 7 | Here was her chance to find out exactly what the police were up to — it sounded as if they might have a new lead . |
| 8 | Sounds as if they might have . |
| 9 | Her breakdown can not be better described than in her own words : ‘ She saw , as she thought , devils opening their mouths all inflamed with burning waves of fire , as if they would have swallowed her in , sometimes ramping at her , sometimes threatening her … night and day , during the aforesaid time ’ . |
| 10 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 12 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 13 | Favourites look as if they will have a good run at Catterick with Royal Greek , Black Spur , James Joy and Pyjamas in particular . |
| 14 | But , when the times comes , his proposers look as if they will have an incontestable piece of evidence . |
| 15 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 16 | Give us the letter C. ’ Joy Prentice looked as if she would have liked the earth to open under her feet . |
| 17 | Some of them happened , she said , when ‘ her eyes were ever together-ward as if she would have slept ’ , some she saw ‘ with her ghostly eye ’ ; most of her experiences with the Holy Family she describes just as she does her other , more ordinary experiences . |
| 18 | Sarah nodded , reluctantly , he felt , as if she would have denied it if she could . |
| 19 | It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended . |
| 20 | It looked as if she would have news for Mademoiselle Rabier when she saw her . |
| 21 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 22 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 23 | Allen looked as if he would have liked to have said more , but the presence of Meryl evidently constrained him . |
| 24 | The delicate tumbler was out of place in his heavy hand ; he looked as if he would have been more comfortable carrying a bottle of beer . |
| 25 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 26 | One of the engineers has fallen , and it sounds as if he may have broken his leg . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
| 28 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
| 29 | Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it . |
| 30 | Mr Stych stopped in his tracks at the mention of such a sum of money , as Hank had hoped he would , and looked at the boy as if he might have gone dangerously mad . |