Example sentences of "[adj] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local fieldworker needs to give serious consideration to this if he attempts to explain the pre-medieval settlements in his area . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How could he pursue her further if he did n't even know her name ? |
| 5 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 6 | But he 's wrong if he thinks he can push me around now . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman is wrong if he seeks to characterise the Scottish budget for next year as somehow lower than the spending increases for other Departments . |
| 8 | The involuntary bailee does no wrong if he acts reasonably in trying to return the goods . |
| 9 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 10 | The best is to call someone ‘ Seven Days of the Week ’ , which means you 'd keep every day free if he asked . |
| 11 | It was as if he had n't really wanted freedom , only to assert his right to be free if he chose , which is quite a different thing and has something both sad and comical about it . |
| 12 | Reckon he 'd be generous if he got a chance like that . " |
| 13 | A man might be more virtuous if more selfish , after all , as more than one eighteenth-century moralist proposed , and more generous if he had more to be generous with . |
| 14 | So he 's would n't it be funny if he got |
| 15 | The APA also questions the current rule that the state must prove that a defendant is sane if he claims that he is insane . |
| 16 | I 'm quite happy for Mr to comment direct if he wishes . |
| 17 | It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present . |
| 18 | ‘ It would make a lot of people feel very much easier if he offered his resignation . ’ |
| 19 | It would have been easier if he had n't found her attractive . |
| 20 | It would have been so much easier if he had remained hostile towards her , but she could sense that that simply would not have been in keeping with his personality . |
| 21 | Resistance might have been easier if he had been , not that her belief that he was had been enough to stop her succumbing to him once . |
| 22 | Jim Lauderdale is like a neutered Dwight Yoakam , though his tribute to George Jones and Gram , ‘ The King Of Broken Hearts ’ suggests he could be exciting if he loosened up a taste . |
| 23 | Are , are you going to ring Martin and see if you can get some if he 's got any more ? |
| 24 | He raised the status and majesty of the royal household beyond even the limit set by Diocletian , which included an acceptance of Christianity in a purely formal sense , since it is very doubtful if he understood its true meaning . |
| 25 | It was doubtful if he heard the final words . |
| 26 | Marco 's devotion to Samavia , given his reflective nature , could easily have seemed priggish if he had not had the Rat as a foil , with his quick memory and his youthful ingenuity . |
| 27 | It is not wrongful if he has rightfully rejected the goods for breach of condition . |
| 28 | They might be different if he had the opportunity to change them after each stage of the count . |
| 29 | And I do not see why it should be different if he has to show that he has done something of value to the seller . |
| 30 | 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 . |