Example sentences of "if he could help [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
| 2 | I had not been there long when an officer appeared , shook my hand and asked if he could help me in any way . |
| 3 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 4 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 5 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 6 | I thought he wanted to see if he could help his father , but it was too late . ’ |
| 7 | He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it . |
| 8 | Not if he could help it . |
| 9 | Which was not to say that he intended to be a martyr tonight , if he could help it . |
| 10 | None of it , if he could help it . |
| 11 | And you ca n't be telling me that Harry went near running water if he could help it . |
| 12 | He no longer approached his bank manager with the trepidation of an errant sixth-former being summoned before a housemaster ; indeed , he no longer approached his bank manager at all if he could help it . |
| 13 | If the laboratory scientists were there already — and Lorrimer , the Senior Biologist , never missed a homicide if he could help it — then there might n't be much for him to do . |
| 14 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 15 | A ‘ Harvey Wallbanger ’ was the most dangerous kind of driver — a real nut that no trucker would go anywhere near if he could help it . |