Example sentences of "[det] if he " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 2 | How could he afford a place like this if he was playing dives like the Moebius Strip ? |
| 3 | This door has a weak spell cast on it ; an adventurer with Magical Awareness will be able to spot this if he makes a successful Int test . |
| 4 | But only try this if he 's likely to find them , that is , if he 's a potentially good speller . |
| 5 | For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question . |
| 6 | He 'd never have sunk to this if he was actually trying to sell one of his plays . |
| 7 | ‘ He would n't have got mixed up in all this if he was n't young and fit . |
| 8 | The local fieldworker needs to give serious consideration to this if he attempts to explain the pre-medieval settlements in his area . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 11 | Are , are you going to ring Martin and see if you can get some if he 's got any more ? |
| 12 | He is a special category of senior civil servant whom a minister can send into temporary retirement and replace with another if he is not felt to share the minister 's party political affiliation . |
| 13 | Teaching and organ-playing gave Benjamin James ( hereinafter simply ‘ Benjamin' for the sake of conciseness ) the wherewithal to leave one place for another if he wished to — they were skills more marketable over a wide area than those of his father , for example , who presumably relied upon local contacts and reputation in order to earn a decent living . |
| 14 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 15 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 16 | Called me frigid and said all the other chaps ' girls were willing enough , and would it matter all that much if he put a bun in the oven for me ? |
| 17 | This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous . |
| 18 | In my view the jugular podge would n't show up so much if he had longer hair , but he never gives that coarse mousy matting of his any Lebensraum . |
| 19 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 20 | He would n't have done that if he was going to nick it , would he ? ’ |
| 21 | She could only do that if he kept her secrets and obeyed her instructions to the letter . |
| 22 | He has to build his own resistance to infections and he ca n't do that if he never meets them . |
| 23 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 24 | But he does n't , and I 'm less and less convinced I 'd react like that if he did . |
| 25 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 26 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 27 | And the judge will only do that if he really has to . |
| 28 | He had said the day before that if he won the Canadian Open , ‘ Great , but if I do n't , no big deal . |
| 29 | Reluctantly , and stressing this was only his " personal " opinion , nothing to do with the British government , the British ambassador replied that a crackdown could n't work , that is the Shah was now forced to withdraw to a naval base , he would soon have to leave altogether anyway , but that if he did now leave Iran , the chances of his coming back were slight . |
| 30 | You , with a shrewd sense of your own advantage , realized that you were now liable to pay one hell of a lot of estate duty on your father 's gift to you because of his inconvenient death ; but that if he had died a fortnight later it would be six and not five years since the property was made over to you . |