Example sentences of "if he be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank . |
| 2 | But if he 's tied something to their tails they 'll run till they drop . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I sometimes wonder if he is watching me through it . ’ |
| 4 | She may wish you to accompany her to his office or to be present if he is to visit her in her home , and he will be pleased to have your co-operation . |
| 5 | How if he is sending you with a bait to bring Owen to his death under cover of a parley , as the king 's council urged ? |
| 6 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 7 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 8 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 9 | Once again he sounded as if he was accusing her of something . |
| 10 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 11 | She wondered if he was saying it with a question in his voice , testing her response . |
| 12 | as if he was treating her like a child … |
| 13 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 14 | As usual it was impossible to tell from Adam 's granite features just how he was feeling — if he was feeling anything at all , she thought savagely . |
| 15 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 16 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 17 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 18 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 19 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |