Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore asked Eliot if I might quote his name as a reference . |
| 2 | ‘ All this time I have been riddled with guilt wondering if I would know his face . |
| 3 | wondered if I should have his place . |
| 4 | I 'M GOING to ask my next door neighbour if I can write his biography . |
| 5 | I shall have to ask around today and see if I can find his owner . |
| 6 | When I asked him if I could borrow his copy he said I would n't understand it , which is true , I suppose . |
| 7 | If so , and if I could attract his attention , he would surely bring the boat over for me . |
| 8 | I asked him if I could rent his cottage . |
| 9 | It would be great if I could include his name here |
| 10 | Angie made a tiny , delicate gesture , her hand moving upwards and outwards , as if she might gather his words from the air and muffle them . |
| 11 | She spoke almost as if she could read his mind . |
| 12 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 13 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 14 | Now , if you can seduce his housekeeper Mrs Kelly into Anglicanism , you 'll be in clover . ’ |
| 15 | So what if you can spot his acne through the ill-fitting headpiece ? |
| 16 | If you can drive his car over I get it , it 's no problem , it seems we might all be talking above ourselves |
| 17 | Watch him Lindy said Bill and see if you can see if you can see his |
| 18 | see if you can find his hat any where Martin |
| 19 | ‘ And see if you can get his name . |
| 20 | Mind you if you can take his toast down , take his cereal down , then I 'll come back . |
| 21 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 22 | Did you ask Rupert if you could use his rucksack ? |
| 23 | If you could find his dentist , he could probably identify him . |
| 24 | Let's go and have a chat with him and see if we can put his mind at rest . ’ |
| 25 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously if we can get his support and if he comes up trumps , it will be marvellous , ’ she said . |
| 27 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |
| 28 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 29 | but then they 've got er er said they they asked if they could rent his house off him until they got themselves sorted out . |
| 30 | When relations grew particularly bad he became the child go-between in a household of warring parents : ‘ Ask your father if it would break his heart to change channels so I can watch the news . ’ |