Example sentences of "if he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 2 | It would have been a little more civilised if he had pointed out that she was a guest at the hacienda , instead of sitting here with that look on his face . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 6 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 7 | If he had made up his mind to see her again , then he would have moved heaven and earth to accomplish it . |
| 8 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 9 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 10 | An acquaintance of mine arrived some weeks later to be told that he could have them if he had turned up sooner . |
| 11 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |
| 12 | But if they backed Sutton at least they stood a chance of controlling him — even if he had turned out to be , as some thought , a bit of a duffer . |
| 13 | It would n't have mattered if he had turned out to be a Celtic supporter at that decisive moment because I had the Celtic team on my tongue all ready to trot out , starting with Kennaway , Cook , McGonigle . |
| 14 | Kit wondered whether Joseph , if he had stayed around , would have had any views on Frank 's motorbike . |
| 15 | Turning , she found Fernand at her side , as if he had risen out of the earth . |
| 16 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 17 | It was as if he had blocked out that part of his life and was only interested in talking about the future . |
| 18 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 19 | Though Sam was the younger of the two , he was not afraid of giving Carl a hard kick on the tochas ( arse ) if he had stepped out of line . |
| 20 | Eric Verrico was the one who most frequently posed , for , looking as if he had stepped out of a Caravaggio , he was the most beautiful of Johnny 's Circus . |
| 21 | ‘ It would n't have surprised me if he had sat up and shouted ‘ Geronimo ’ as he went , ’ he said . |
| 22 | They only saw him : it was very sudden , just as if he had materialized out of thin air . |
| 23 | If he had set out to prove that the passionate interlude on the road this morning had been genuine on his part he had certainly succeeded . |
| 24 | She worried a bit if he had got back safely , but not enough to ask anyone if he had . |
| 25 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 26 | His ferocious idealism made her think over and over again in terror of what her father would have said to her , and what she would have replied , if he had woken up when she shook him . |
| 27 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 28 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 29 | It was almost as if he 'd reached out to clasp her hand in his plea for help , and she knew she 'd wanted to give him a lift . |
| 30 | But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’ |