Example sentences of "if he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he thought , if he drove her hard enough and far enough , she 'd quit of her own accord . |
| 2 | An individual sitting on the board of such an inquiry may satisfy his own conscience if he finds himself in disagreement with his colleagues by exercising his right to attach a minority dissenting view to the formal report if he considers it necessary to do so . |
| 3 | He raised the status and majesty of the royal household beyond even the limit set by Diocletian , which included an acceptance of Christianity in a purely formal sense , since it is very doubtful if he understood its true meaning . |
| 4 | If he asked me such and such I 'd say now this is how you do it . |
| 5 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 6 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 7 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 8 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 9 | One could therefore have been forgiven for wondering if he took it all totally seriously . |
| 10 | They now told him , in no uncertain terms , that if he had something important to communicate , he could do it in the plant car park during the lunch break , or after working hours . |
| 11 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |
| 12 | If the X question states that a ‘ Minister may intervene if he thinks it necessary or desirable , ’ then the only way in which the courts can maintain control is to require the minister to provide some evidence to justify his action . |
| 13 | Will he , if he thinks it necessary , arrange for a debate on the matter ? |
| 14 | If he thinks it advisable that the complainant should ask for an investigation by either of those other Commissioners he may inform him of the steps necessary to do so . |
| 15 | If he believes a thing harmful , he must not support it ; if he thinks it unjust he must denounce it . |
| 16 | If he neglected his physical body , there was no one here to reprimand him , for the whole community was woefully neglected . |
| 17 | Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand . |
| 18 | Redgrave has already won two gold medals and will become Britain 's most successful current Olympic sportsman if he wins his third . |
| 19 | If he thought something interesting , he would desert what he was doing and amble off to meditate on the new idea , muttering to himself as he walked . |
| 20 | She would have to keep the child 's arms covered , because Roy would go crazy if he thought his little angel had been whipped . |
| 21 | A former officer in the so-called pink Panther Brigade under Rifat Assad , he held a master 's degree from the University of Kiev and , as Coleman quickly discovered , worked harder than anybody because he was desperate to get to America and Hurley kept promising to get a visa for him if he made himself useful . |
| 22 | Mum had said that if he made himself invisible people would like him and he wanted that very much . |
| 23 | I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements . |
| 24 | Marion had worried that , if he consumed it that afternoon , his performance would suffer that evening . |
| 25 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 26 | If he slept his starved body would summon up a parade of dreams that re-ran those amorous collisions at the Parc Hotel and Melbury Court . |
| 27 | well if he gets it right |
| 28 | There 's the fact that if he gets it wrong he 's lost more money and therefore his , you might say insurable risk is a higher one . |
| 29 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 30 | If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk . |