Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [conj] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the contract is frustrated , the seller will still have to carry out the contract and if he delivers goods which do not comply with it , he will be in breach of contract . |
| 2 | He loved the Spitfire and if he had to die , that was the way he would have wanted it . |
| 3 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 4 | No I wo n't Niki because he 's in the car and if he wakes up and he 's going to be so unhappy . |
| 5 | Some of that has to be insecurity and often I have thought that what makes Jackie run is the fear that if he stops running the world will all fall apart about him . |
| 6 | Solicitors for the feudal superiors — the Scottish Episcopal Church — have warned the man behind the plan that if he proceeds with his plan , the church has the power to repossess the building . |
| 7 | Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble . |
| 8 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 9 | So it will matter then to the child that if he types in four times two plus one , it 's got to be the right version of that sum . |
| 10 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
| 11 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 12 | I was in some doubt as to whether the Corporal had stumbled upon us accidentally on his way out of the town or if he 'd been deliberately tasked . |
| 13 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 14 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 15 | His acceptance of Franco 's " absolution " was given in the knowledge that if he engaged in further subversive activities , it could be at the risk of his career . |
| 16 | A hermit , the Seer of Carperby , stepped forward and warned the giant that if he carried out his threats he would never again enter his castle alive . |
| 17 | The wise hermit of the dale , the Seer of Carbaby , warned the giant that if he carried out his threat he would never see his castle again alive or dead . |
| 18 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 19 | A plaintiff has only four calendar months ( six if leave to serve out of the jurisdiction is required under RSC Ord 11 ) , in which to serve the writ and if he does not serve it within that period the fact that the last day is a Sunday , when it can not be served , does not come to his aid . |
| 20 | Er but you get the feeling that if he does n't score then as I said nobody else can . |
| 21 | You get the feeling that if he wants to play the hard-assed producer , he can . |
| 22 | That 's all I 'll say i in the morning and if he says yes , I 'll say oh fair enough then . |
| 23 | if he , that in the sense that if he came back and said the revolution 's already happening , all we need to do is to get |
| 24 | Years later I learnt that Hodson went down to Sussex and told the headmaster that if he beat either of us again he would have him taken to court . |
| 25 | Practitioners will be aware that transactions at an undervalue can be put aside ( Insolvency Act 1986 , s339 ) if the transferor is adjudged bankrupt within two years of the transaction or if he becomes bankrupt within five years of the transaction and was insolvent at that time or was insolvent by reason of it ( s341 ) . |
| 26 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 27 | Presumably this could happen if the employee retired and sold the information or if he joined company X and yet sold the information to company Y. It may be a recognition by the Court that the attitude of the courts generally towards employees since 1913 has , in some cases , been over generous . |
| 28 | Bunny works on the principle that if he asks every woman he meets to sleep with him , a certain percentage are going to say yes . |
| 29 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 30 | Well he 's the least of the problem because if he 's got something in the churchyard there 'd be something dated probably . |