Example sentences of "if he [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If he 's not paying till next week , next
2 He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change .
3 it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things .
4 Er , can I ask Wallace Mercer , if he 's still listening to the programme , if he was considered the environment in his plans for the football stadium ?
5 well if he 's still wandering about , no he 's decided he 's not having cake though
6 We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise .
7 But , against that , the presence of Neil Edwards and Troy Coker ( if he is not suffering from jet lag ) in the line-outs should work in Quins ' favour .
8 It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts .
9 Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ?
10 And if he was n't searching through magazines and papers he was looking into boxes , bags and bundles to find more magazines and newspapers to search through .
11 If he was n't waiting for me , I would know that something was wrong .
12 And if he was n't talking about the after life , he was talking about birds . ’
13 Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ?
14 Normally when he and I were with girls he would be all competitive , even if he was n't meaning to be .
15 If he was still living with you he would n't wash his hands of Neil , would he ?
16 If he was really living in the house he must be taking pains to leave no signs of his occupancy .
17 I wondered if he was really talking about himself , but was too angry to ask .
18 It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars .
19 It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority .
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