Example sentences of "[to-vb] if he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to know if he had ever grown a beard ? |
| 2 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 3 | The questions had chased each other round and round , finding terrible answers , until he knew he would start to scream if he did not shut them out . |
| 4 | • To make him vomit , give your child water to drink if he has not eaten recently . |
| 5 | Beyond that sea rises a mountain range and beyond that stretches a vast desert where the sun twists round and beats down so hot it would dry out an eagle 's wings and turn them to dust if he flew too long . |
| 6 | In such cases someone who says ‘ I know ’ lays himself open to reproach if what he says turns out to be false in much the same way as someone who says ‘ I promise ’ lays himself open to reproach if he does not do what he promised to do . |
| 7 | A white van came , chap got out , you know , I never sh I di I did n't look to see if he come back . |
| 8 | The boy 's going to fall if he does n't take care . |
| 9 | The lad 's going to fall if he does n't take care . |
| 10 | The child 's going to fall if he does n't take care . |
| 11 | The idiot 's going to fall if he does n't take care . |
| 12 | He 's going to fall if he does n't take care . |
| 13 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 14 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 15 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |
| 16 | He may have more tax to pay if he does not survive seven years ( IHTA 1984 , s7(4) ) . |
| 17 | If a portfolio manager is considering investing in a company for 5 years , how much should he be prepared to pay if he finds out from his broker that the company is expected to perform as follows : . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 19 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 20 | So he can have a go on the race track or he do n't have to bother if he do n't want to . |
| 21 | Charlie was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored in a corner of his life that he did n't really have to reveal if he did n't choose to do so . |