Example sentences of "if he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had drunk from it , the wounds received in his last dreadful battle against his nephew Mordred would have healed . |
| 2 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 3 | If he had joined Scum first off he would nt even be in England now . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 5 | Watson could be the owner of four Masters titles instead of two if he had parred the hole in 1978 and last year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 8 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
| 9 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
| 10 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 11 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 12 | She was shaking as she lurched back , almost as if he had thrust her away from him . |
| 13 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 14 | But Noades revealed that if he had insisted in altering the payment arrangement of his players , they would have been automatically entitled to free transfers and could have walked out and signed for someone else . |
| 15 | In worldly terms , he missed his opportunity , for he could almost certainly have obtained Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees on investiture and homage if he had insisted , for at that moment Henry would have had to agree to anything to get his support . |
| 16 | His thoughts teetered nastily , and he wondered if he had uttered the possibility in order to ward it off . |
| 17 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 18 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
| 19 | It was as if he had slapped her in the face . |
| 20 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 21 | For example , if he had to smoke in her flat , he could at least have the decency to empty the ashtray . |
| 22 | When I was silent he came towards me , took my hands , and said with a formal air as if he had prepared this speech , ‘ I 'm so sorry I upset you . |
| 23 | If he had to go , he should go quietly and give continued moral support to the paper . |
| 24 | But if he had to go he would go alone . |
| 25 | He has to watch the actor he would replace for signs of strain or imminent collapse and wonder nervously whether he could actually remember the lines if he had to go on . |
| 26 | If he had to go upstairs , that would be it , because of the smoke . |
| 27 | He would go to prison , if he had to go to prison , convinced of his rightness , proud of his martyrdom . |
| 28 | If he had to go I think that was the way he would have wanted it |
| 29 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 30 | I asked him if he had posted the letter . |