Example sentences of "if he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 'e 'ad called the doctor then I say that no-one dies ! ’ |
| 2 | That law would permit such an authority to rely upon presumed injury to its reputation because the defendant , who had accomplished a statement reflecting upon the reputation of the local authority , would have to prove the truth if he sought to justify the publication ; and , if he had commented adversely upon the conduct of the council , he would have to prove the substantial truth of the facts upon which the comment was based . |
| 3 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |
| 4 | Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in . |
| 5 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |
| 6 | That may change if he continues to draw the kind of encouragement which has poured in since he announced in February that he might run for the White House . |
| 7 | Watson could be the owner of four Masters titles instead of two if he had parred the hole in 1978 and last year . |
| 8 | His thoughts teetered nastily , and he wondered if he had uttered the possibility in order to ward it off . |
| 9 | I asked him if he had posted the letter . |
| 10 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 11 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 12 | Something to think about if he had to leave the boy on his own like . |
| 13 | Kate had been all too aware of the stiffening in the figure next to her , even if he had ignored the girl , apart from an acknowledging , casual smile in her direction . |
| 14 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 15 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 16 | If he had eaten the grain instead , he and his family would not now be starving , but they would be homeless and the remains of the grain would have been seized for the debt . |
| 17 | If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand , his holiday would have been spoilt . |
| 18 | I can not help but wonder how much more he would have enjoyed catching those fish if he had baited the swim himself . |
| 19 | If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views . |
| 20 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 21 | So Deans record is 2 goals in 13 games — im quite sure that Frank at least would have doubled that if he had gotten the chance . |
| 22 | ‘ Lucky for him you came along , ’ he said , almost as if he had recognised the implication , too , and was making a token apology for it . |
| 23 | as if he had invented the guitar ; |
| 24 | And if he had rung the bell at Connon 's what reason would he have had to kill Mary ? |
| 25 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 26 | The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture . |
| 27 | If he had read the Duke of Edinburgh 's report or the reports of the Conservative-controlled London Boroughs Association and Association of District Councils he would know that some of his arguments were invalid — I put it no stronger than that . |
| 28 | If he had read the report , he would have found in it powerful evidence that his partisan ideological commitment to abolish the scheme is foolish . |
| 29 | It was ‘ abundantly clear that the byelaw maker , if he had appreciated the limitation on his powers , would both at Greenham Common and at Fylingdales nevertheless have gone on to make the bylaws in such a way that the proviso to section 14(1) was given effect but all the world save commoners would still have been within their ambit ’ . |
| 30 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |