Example sentences of "if he [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a member of the wealthy middle class , Darwin had a social position that he might well forfeit if he became identified with the supposedly atheistical concept of transmutation . |
| 2 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 3 | One senior teacher in a referring school has bluntly informed Owen that if he continues to insist upon the adherence to detailed procedures and referral criteria ‘ they will be forced to lie . ’ |
| 4 | She would have preferred it if he had remained in the living-room . |
| 5 | He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source . |
| 6 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 7 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 8 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 9 | If he had played in the match he would have been the least accurate driver , the player missing the most greens in regulation and the worst bunker player on the team . |
| 10 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
| 11 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 12 | If he had offended against the Church he was ready to give satisfaction . |
| 13 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 14 | It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century . |
| 15 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 16 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 17 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 18 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 19 | It seems a reasonable conjecture that , if he had known about the decree , he would have acted on it , or at least given reasons for not acting on it . |
| 20 | This came in January 1991 , with the arrival on the scene of licensed engineer Bob Eatwell , who admits that if he had known of the multitude of technical and administrative problems that he faced , would have walked out of the Rochester workshop , into sanity ! |
| 21 | By s.2(1) the accused is not dishonest if he : ( a ) believes he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property ; ( b ) believes that the victim would have consented to the appropriation of the property , if he had known of the circumstances ; ( c ) finds property , when the owner can not reasonably be found . |
| 22 | Even if he had known of the switch , the victim might indeed still have bought . |
| 23 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 24 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) In an action for personal injuries ; ( a ) the number of expert witnesses shall be limited in any case to two medical experts and one expert of any other kind ; ( b ) nothing in para ( 1 ) above shall require a party to produce a further medical report if he proposes to rely at the trial only on the report provided pursuant to Ord 6 , r 1(5) or ( 6 ) but , where a further report is disclosed , that report shall be accompanied by an amended statement of the special damages claimed , if appropriate . |
| 26 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 27 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 28 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 29 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 30 | If he 'd started in the early ‘ thirties , when we were courting and when the Depression was really biting , then he 'd have done all right . |