Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 2 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 3 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 4 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 5 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 6 | If I enter him for the race will you wager ten pounds for me ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 8 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
| 9 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 10 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 11 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 12 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
| 13 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 14 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 15 | It 's rose pruning time says Brian and he will call and do the necessary if you contact him at the Glendale Club on 091–584–1148 . |
| 16 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We talked to Elizabeth , to Monty 's doctor and to Monty , and we all decided that it would kill Monty if we took him off the picture . |
| 18 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 19 | One of the conspirators would ring the foreman to tip him off that the shop steward could be caught red-handed stealing company property if they searched him at the gate . |
| 20 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 21 | This was his perfect nightmare , to be facing scabby , pock-marked men like these , who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot . |
| 22 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 23 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 24 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 25 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |