Example sentences of "if he be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
2 | If anything , he should be kicked out if he 's like that . |
3 | I thought , if he 's like this , to hell with him . |
4 | I wonder if he is in any way related to the Paul Hamlyn ? |
5 | Even if he is in less haste he will not delay , I think . |
6 | So then the teachers think if he is like that he 's not worth the trouble . |
7 | Yeah but I mean it depends what sort of bloke he is , and I mean if he is like that |
8 | ‘ Give me one good reason , ’ he demanded , somehow his voice reaching her as gruff and as if he was under some powerful emotion too . |
9 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
10 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
11 | Alexandra took her father over every inch of her domain and he nodded at her enthusiasm , but if he was at all impressed by what she did , what she planned , he gave no sign . |
12 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
13 | If he was in such a desperate hurry , he could have gone round and gone the other way |
14 | ‘ I continue to do so , Master , ’ said the Robemaker and , although there was not the smallest trace of subservience in his voice , Nuadu , listening intently , received the impression that the Robemaker was choosing his words with care , as if he was in some and of thrall to this being . |
15 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
16 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |