Example sentences of "if he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities are reportedly prepared to release Fr Jin if he appeals for clemency on grounds such as ill-health . |
| 2 | If he were alive today , he would have even more cause for satisfaction . |
| 3 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 4 | It was as if he had conceived a latterday , visual version of the sonnet or the haiku . |
| 5 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 6 | I feel that Albert Maillard , if he existed , would have no time for Kapuscinski 's impressionism , for his absence of dates , figures and state papers , and that Albert Maillard would be wrong . |
| 7 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 8 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 9 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 10 | Rosaline chides Berowne , and taxes him with certain conditions he must fulfil if he is to gain her hand ( the Princess and her ladies have responded to the death of the King of France by postponing any further romance for one year ) . |
| 11 | Exuding hope ? he said , as if he did n't understand English any more . |
| 12 | If he only . |
| 13 | He was putting on his heavy overcoat , asked again casually if he could have a look at the glass . |
| 14 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Nonsense , Peter , ’ his wife pounced down on him as if he were a hound that had misbehaved . |
| 17 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 18 | He spoke the words ‘ sherry at six ’ with a hint of menace , rather as if he had said ‘ pistols at dawn ’ . |
| 19 | Now if he is kidnapped , what may we deduce ? |
| 20 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 21 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew she 'd gone up to Jack 's — she always does now if he 's alone , makes no secret of it . |
| 23 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 24 | He was tall , and he looked as if he might be good at something decent like cricket . |
| 25 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 26 | Father looked as if he might hit me again . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll kill me if he catches me out here . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Particularly if he was a married gentleman . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Particularly , ’ agreed Thomas , ‘ if he was a married gentleman . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |