Example sentences of "if he [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | See I do n't know if it 's just part real or if he 's just trying to frighten me . |
2 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
3 | I said , you might as well get forty , I said , because if he 's late coming down |
4 | Er , can I ask Wallace Mercer , if he 's still listening to the programme , if he was considered the environment in his plans for the football stadium ? |
5 | well if he 's still wandering about , no he 's decided he 's not having cake though |
6 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
7 | he ferreted it out , but I , you know I said to Mike well if er , if he 's only chewing the paper |
8 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
9 | He was very interested and he would like to meet us and I said that if he 's actually doing a directory |
10 | I want to see if he 's actually doing anything . |
11 | He looks as if he 's always having dreams . |
12 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
13 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
14 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
15 | If he is now giving us a commitment that the reasons for a refusal will be made available to the applicant , that is welcome . |
16 | If he is consistently having to refer back for support this will not only weaken his standing with the contractor , but it will cause uncertainty and delay to the contract . |
17 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
18 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |