Example sentences of "[pron] if he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home . |
| 2 | He realised he could make a lot of money and a name for himself if he were to act swiftly and produce his maps before Green had time to complete his own . |
| 3 | Rab wished he had a phone : he 'd phone himself if he had a phone . |
| 4 | One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it . |
| 5 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 6 | I can understand why a kid would kill himself if he went through that sort of experience . |
| 7 | He 'll get that in time to move out himself if he 's on the level , too late to do you any harm if he 's not . ’ |
| 8 | Section 34(2) provides for the application to be made by the authority or the child and the question has been raised whether the child , in that context , means the child himself if he is of sufficient age and understanding to make the application . |
| 9 | His acceptance of the condition was made with an easy mind — he did n't feel that distributing a newspaper , even a banned one , would be considered a particularly heinous offence for a young girl , and anyway he could not imagine that he would be in any danger himself if he admitted knowledge of the basket 's contents . |
| 10 | He would drink lemonade himself if he was sufficiently offended , and then add to my other transgressions the blame for spoiling his outing by denying him wine . |
| 11 | Manjiku thinks he 'll have a baby himself if he eats enough women , especially women with babies inside them waiting to be born — ; |
| 12 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 13 | He says he ca n't help it , that he ca n't control himself if he 's asleep . |
| 14 | So let him talk for himself if he had anything to say . |
| 15 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 16 | She held out the coffee but he did n't take it , not daring to trust himself if he reached towards her . |
| 17 | They described Henry as an intense person , a perfectionist , who 'd be cross with himself if he did n't give his best . |
| 18 | He simply absents himself if he feels the programme to be wrong , and his self-discipline is unswerving about doing his homework , and knowing his own way forward . |
| 19 | I do n't think he may have been told about that , now he himself if he knew about that , that might be sufficient digging him over this hill |
| 20 | He would not be true to himself if he showered us with blessings while we 're outside of his will . |
| 21 | Romeo Martinez claims that Capa was the unifying factor : ‘ he was driven by a single notion , which proved to be the healthiest idea in the history of photography — that a reporter is nobody if he does n't own his own negatives . ’ |
| 22 | He has every right to bare his teeth at ye if he wants to . ’ |
| 23 | Although the issues of capacity and genuine consent or rejection are separate , in reality they may well overlap , so that a patient in a weakened condition may be unduly influenced in circumstances in which if he had been fit , he would have resisted the influence sought to be exercised over him . |
| 24 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 25 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 26 | At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll kill me if he catches me out here . ’ |
| 28 | He 'll kill me if he finds out I took them . ’ |
| 29 | Charles would tease me if he thought I was worrying about my weight ; he likes curvy women with big breasts , Nicola once confided in me . |
| 30 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |