Example sentences of "if he could have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 3 | Even if he could have turned them down he would n't have , in my opinion . |
| 4 | I wondered what Stewart Wilson , the Oxford don who had suggested it , would have said if he could have seen me . |
| 5 | He would have got a shock if he could have seen my face . |
| 6 | Her husband 's gooseberry eyes shot in her direction , then looked at Greg , who lowered his noticing eyes to his knees and thus looked , if he could have seen himself , the picture of guilt . |
| 7 | How much more depressed he would have been , if he could have seen the silent trombonist in years to come , ensconced in his offices , sifting the sparse and scattered remains of his life . |
| 8 | But it would have been tidier if he could have separated them . |
| 9 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 10 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 11 | Without it , I doubt if he could have undertaken such work is he did . |
| 12 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 13 | It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done . |
| 14 | What if he could have emerged from the summit of this chimney ? |
| 15 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 16 | Surely Landor 's lines about Ianthe ought to have come into his head if he could have remembered them . |
| 17 | He says he would have burnt it if he could have afforded to buy it . |
| 18 | He fancied a class half the size especially if he could have picked who was in it . |
| 19 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 20 | He 'd had cancer — melanoma , skin cancer — apparently a massive dose of it , and now he looked as if he could have taken on Frank Bruno . |
| 21 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 22 | Dilettante 's answer would have been better if he could have shown that the Wilts case , though apparently relevant , was not conclusive on the question . |
| 23 | He remained convinced that if he could have spent ten hours a day working on Event , ‘ wining and dining advertisers and so on ’ , the magazine could have been saved . |
| 24 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 25 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 26 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 27 | Rostov wondered if he could have phrased the statement differently . |
| 28 | It would be a fitting tickle — if he could have got away with it . |
| 29 | It was no use — even if he could have got to his feet , he knew he 'd never be able to escape . |
| 30 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |