Example sentences of "[adv] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 2 | Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ? |
| 3 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 4 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
| 5 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 6 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 7 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 8 | Perhaps if he does score the tension will go from his game . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps if he wrecked the thermostat , someone would think it worth putting a little pressure on their British friends . |
| 10 | You know , and perhaps if he came , he would overcome it . |
| 11 | Perhaps if he 'd been around more , he might have held the club together . |
| 12 | Perhaps if he 'd realized . |
| 13 | Perhaps , thought Juliet , her heart thudding against her ribs , perhaps if he helps me he thinks he might fall in love with me too . |
| 14 | Perhaps if he saw her looking wonderful , dancing beautifully , he would realize that he needed her as much as she needed him . |
| 15 | Perhaps if he fancied Perdita he saw her as a potential mother-in-law . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps if he has n't got labels , he does n't know what his clothes are , ’ said the Thing . |
| 17 | I wondered idly if he had done something wrong and been demoted . |
| 18 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 20 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 21 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 22 | ‘ His school reports always used to say , ‘ Jonathon could do better if he tried . ’ ' |
| 23 | I should wither up and die inside if he did . |
| 24 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 25 | He he wo n't be there long if he does come . |
| 26 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 27 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 28 | ‘ But only if he agrees . |
| 29 | Only if he knew her to be ready to take that risk herself . |
| 30 | The accused , therefore , is guilty of blackmail against a timorous person , when a reasonable person would not have been frightened , only if he knew of the timidity . |