Example sentences of "if he [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 2 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |
| 3 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
| 4 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 5 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 6 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 7 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 8 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 9 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 10 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 11 | Asked if he had been in touch with his 43-year-old wife , who is absent from their country home in Chippenham , Wilts , the brigadier said : ‘ Of course I have . ’ |
| 12 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 13 | His hair was grey , and his face lined and brown as if he had been in the sun for a long time . |
| 14 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 15 | I did wonder if he had been in his cups before we opened the wine but he assured me he had not . ’ |
| 16 | If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign . |
| 17 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 18 | if he had been in charge , things would have been very different . |
| 19 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 20 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 21 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 22 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 23 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 24 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 25 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 26 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 27 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 28 | I wonder if he 's been to the doctors with it . |
| 29 | " If he 's been in the tidal river , would n't the water be tidal water anyway ? " |
| 30 | If he 's been in the area , they may know something . ’ |