Example sentences of "if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If he undertakes such tests and discovers the truth , should he then be able to jettison his partner , otherwise presumably to his liking ? |
| 32 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 33 | I used to say , if he farted , it 'd smell like roses ! ’ |
| 34 | It is questionable whether the accused has entered if he inserts a key into a lock or puts his hand through a window . |
| 35 | Sadly , my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) will not be with us after the election , but my experience of him suggests that if he opens his mouth in Ashfield , we shall hear him down here — |
| 36 | And even if that did n't happen , even if he listened and said he 'd do something , it would n't be any good because Hepzibah would n't have any part in it . |
| 37 | If he listened to Anthony Scrivener , he would be a darned sight better . |
| 38 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 39 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 40 | He asked dealers at random to deliver the goods , and berated anyone who was obviously unprepared , particularly if he belonged to the streetwise contingent whose daily newspaper tended to be the Daily Mirror or The Sun . |
| 41 | He had never felt as if he belonged . |
| 42 | It was n't easy , travelling , in those days , but it was n't as if he belonged here anyway . ’ |
| 43 | In this magnificent room , he looked as if he belonged , his face and bearing as noble as any aristocrat 's . |
| 44 | Perhaps Tock had been too hard on them and if he treated them gently their disobedience would stop . |
| 45 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 46 | he knew , if he , if he treated me right , I treated him right |
| 47 | Gesner totally ignored Therese when they were n't on stage together , but he at least kept reasonably quiet when she was performing , and if he passed derogatory comments about her at least they were audible only to those close to him . |
| 48 | Perhaps Mr Harrison would have second thoughts if he walked in our neck of the woods . |
| 49 | The manager ca n't justifiably desert either of his regulars at the moment but knows that if he walked the street and canvassed the fans there would be only one answer : bring on the Frenchman ! |
| 50 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 51 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | ‘ I would n't have Finn back if he walked on his head from Mycenae to here . ’ |
| 54 | Could n't be sure that if he walked back in now she would n't still feel that leap of the heart , that curl of excitement . |
| 55 | Night after night she 'd nag , and in the morning would peck his cheek affectionately if he walked by the cooker where she was frying up his bacon and eggs for breakfast . |
| 56 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |
| 57 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 58 | If he cut it above himself he presumably fell , and in that case his life was evidently saved by something approaching a miracle — at any rate , we know that he was saved because otherwise he would be beyond the jurisdiction and the question would have no legal interest . |
| 59 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 60 | Like many sexually naïve people , Lewis supposed that if he eliminated the consciously erotic elements of his sexuality from the surface of life , he would be able to dispel the habits and characteristics of which these particular tastes were a mere symptom . |