Example sentences of "that if he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE screen persona of Lee Van Cleef suggested that if he met a rattler , the snake would come off worse . |
| 2 | And then , one day , out of the blue , Jean-Claude mentioned that if he had a piano he might take pupils . |
| 3 | He made notes and said that if he had a key to the house he 'd be able to plan what was needed in a shorter time . |
| 4 | Had n't he realised that if he married a girl she had to eat ? |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 6 | And give warning to Dacre that if he led a force into Scotland hereafter , as reputedly planned , he would suffer at his house of Gilsland . |
| 7 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
| 8 | Despite all his careful preliminary research , Bjornsson discovered that if he calculated a formula from one half of his data he obtained a completely different equation from that which was obtained from the other half . |
| 9 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 10 | It amounts to telling the reader that if he has a bet today , he might win , which remains true whether he bets or not , and if he does , whether he wins or not . |
| 11 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 12 | He was stunned to find that if he turned a knob , music came out of the tiny speaker , and he never stopped playing with it . |
| 13 | You talk about getting work you talk about getting work and all that sort of thing erm we 've offered John , at one point , that if he did a bit of clearing up in the churchyard erm that he would be given a small amount of money . |
| 14 | Initially he whispered the line , but it was embarrassing to have to continually repeat himself after a series of ‘ pardons ’ and ‘ whats ? ’ and he soon discovered that if he spoke a line clearly and loudly he was n't noticed as much . |