Example sentences of "[adj] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But he 's wrong if he thinks he can push me around now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The involuntary bailee does no wrong if he acts reasonably in trying to return the goods . |
| 5 | The best is to call someone ‘ Seven Days of the Week ’ , which means you 'd keep every day free if he asked . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Reckon he 'd be generous if he got a chance like that . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So he 's would n't it be funny if he got |
| 10 | The APA also questions the current rule that the state must prove that a defendant is sane if he claims that he is insane . |
| 11 | I 'm quite happy for Mr to comment direct if he wishes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was doubtful if he heard the final words . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not wrongful if he has rightfully rejected the goods for breach of condition . |
| 17 | They might be different if he had the opportunity to change them after each stage of the count . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Because he was afraid if he stayed he would be arrested ? ’ |
| 20 | My husband insists I have no contact with my friends , and gets violent if he finds out I have seen them . |
| 21 | It would have been very dangerous if he had not . ’ |
| 22 | In contrast , at Verdun a casualty — even once picked up — could reckon himself highly fortunate if he received any treatment within twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | He will be even more fortunate if he has his conviction quashed , since there was against him an open-and-shut case under section 15 . |
| 24 | And who would be more bitterly indignant if he risked it than young Harry himself , whose pride in his prince and jealousy of his rights had no match even among David 's own blood-kin ? |
| 25 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 26 | It is true that it would not prevent the mortgagee taking possession , though it made his position in some degree uncomfortable if he did take possession . |
| 27 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 28 | Actually , the Governor would have ample reason to feel paranoid if he did but know the gist of the message Jaq intended to send . |
| 29 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't be too upset if he does n't come , ’ said Drew in an undertone . |