Example sentences of "if he can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | squares the ball to his left and Alan the left back just pushes it out wide to that far side but he loses out , competing successfully , he 's got going forward if he can find him , and gets it and lays it off to and can now run at Mickey once more . |
| 32 | Printed texts , if he can find them , may be wildly inaccurate , and notes and glossaries either hesitant or misleading . ’ |
| 33 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 34 | He 's got one Adrian , now ask him if he can find it ! |
| 35 | He is likely to knock you off your feet just being led across the yard if he can find anything to spook at , and when it comes to removing rugs he is something of a Houdini . |
| 36 | Moreover , the incentive to the departmental manager will completely disappear when he/she realises that there is no virement : Thus , even if he can reduce his capital charge by £500 per month , this will not give him an extra £300 to spend on other items . |
| 37 | But an employer can legally sack you or your partner if he can prove it is disruptive of other work relationships , it could harm business or that it affects job performance . |
| 38 | ‘ He is certainly in ; I will see if he can receive you . ’ |
| 39 | See if he can squeeze something more out of I C I . |
| 40 | ‘ Why not , if he can provide us with the answer . ’ |
| 41 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 42 | In marking the piece , draw his attention only to the words is , it , bom , stown , Point out to him wondow , garben and somedody to see if he can correct them himself . |
| 43 | The Komodo Dragon lives off pigs , goats , deer — and man , if he can get him . |
| 44 | He 's still trying to find some he 's phoned a bloke in Plymouth see if he can get them . |
| 45 | Well we 'll get the specialist to go in and see her and see what he makes of her , see if he can get her back on her feet . |
| 46 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 47 | if he can get me through my test , he can get anybody through ! |
| 48 | So if , if he goes round after er school he can just walk round and see if he can get it . |
| 49 | Yeah , but I 've been taking out , cos we had a rogue living above us you see , and I thought well he 's one of these that 'll take owt if he can get it you see . |
| 50 | He is , if he can get you to do it for him , then it 's done . |
| 51 | Sir Formal Trifle is a melancholy , po-faced rhetorician who will never use one short word if he can get his tongue round 50 long ones , while Sir Samuel Hearty hilariously lives up to his name . |
| 52 | ( Ask Ian Mackenzie if he can sell you a bag ) . |
| 53 | These days most dairies will deliver skimmed milk , so ask the milkman if he can supply it . |
| 54 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 55 | He 's wondering if he can kiss me , she thought . |
| 56 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 57 | When the patient is having long-term treatment at home , it is often worthwhile for him to invest in his own treatment plinth , if he can afford it , and if there is space for it . |
| 58 | He 's then gon na look at his bank account and see if he can afford it or not . |
| 59 | And he 'll only start the job if he can afford it , that 's if he 's a wise man . |
| 60 | I shall also write to the Captain for addresses and and businesses and if he can help us and so forth . |