Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | We got it there or thereabouts for sales executives right ? the area development exec job but we did n't get it right we were two grand adrift quite clearly demonstrable evidence that we were two grand adrift on that pay and I 've asked now to agree to upping the pay level and if he does we might get some decent people and then we worry about the ramifications of that afterwards , yeah ? |
| 34 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Obviously if we can get his support and if he comes up trumps , it will be marvellous , ’ she said . |
| 36 | Dick is a trespasser , as the occupier was unaware of his presence and if he had known of his presence , would have objected to it . |
| 37 | He loved the Spitfire and if he had to die , that was the way he would have wanted it . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one . |
| 40 | In spite of this , sitting on his Empire chair beneath the window , head tilted to one side at an angle of acute concentration , he had the curious sensation that if he shifted his gaze from the little group mouthing in front of him his head might fall off . |
| 41 | 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 … |
| 42 | Was it not sheer arrogant complacency for the right hon. Gentleman to tell the National Economic Development Council at its recent meeting that if he had known before that there would be a fall of 15 per cent . |
| 43 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |
| 44 | Owen was , he was aware , a hired man and not a member of the charmed social circle and if he wanted to get things done he had to do it indirectly by tweaking the inner social system . |
| 45 | If an insolvency practitioner is appointed as interim receiver , he must give security and if he fails to do so and keep it up , then he can be discharged as interim receiver ( rr 6.54 and 6.55 ) . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | He says that if he 's going to overshoot he 'll use a sea anchor or drop a stern anchor and if he stops short of us he 'll send a crew with a rope . |
| 48 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |
| 49 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The provost had confronted the man and had issued a warning , telling him that ‘ the process before the Judiciary at the Croun 's Instance was still hanging over his head & if he transgressed those who assisted to bring him of[f] may also get the affair moved againe , at least for £30 of expenses ’ . |
| 52 | Unused to the rough and ready answering-back of British socialism , he remarked next day that if he lived in Britain he would be a Tory . |
| 53 | My Lords , erm I I I 'm glad t t to know that a text is readily available er I agree with my Noble Friend that if he took the simple course of comparing the Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as it was printed , he would have run into trouble . |
| 54 | 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 |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It is pointless telling a toddler that if he does not hit his sister Mummy will play with him tomorrow . |
| 57 | Might there be a chance that if he went back to England , he could make her care for him ? |
| 58 | The Jamaican-born winger is six weeks ahead of schedule and if he comes through this test against a Tranmere side , he will be on target for an appearance in the Premier League match at QPR on November 23 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | He could row one way one minute and if he found you agreeing with him , he would take the opposite argument on principle . ’ |