Example sentences of "if he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 If he neglected his physical body , there was no one here to reprimand him , for the whole community was woefully neglected .
4 Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand .
5 Redgrave has already won two gold medals and will become Britain 's most successful current Olympic sportsman if he wins his third .
6 She would have to keep the child 's arms covered , because Roy would go crazy if he thought his little angel had been whipped .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I knew that , when we reported in September , if he expressed his adverse opinions to journalists he would dominate the headlines , and the Report might be irretrievably damaged .
10 If he achieves his ambitious growth targets it is bound to mean more jobs although it is highly unlikely that they will grow at the same rate — ‘ but it would be fairly substantial and it would be in Glasgow ’ .
11 Of course he will feel jealous when a new baby arrives on the scene — even if he does his best not to show it .
12 If he answers his own question in the affirmative ( which he clearly does ) de Man will have read the text in a certain way and therefore construed it as an object , the discovery of which will then be used to validate the way in which the text has been read .
13 If he maintains his present form he will get caps . ’
14 He calculated that he would be able to meet all his daily and official duties if he devoted his entire time to them , and abandoned any attempt at his own writing , but this he was determined not to do .
15 If he backed his superior , Marshal Yazov , and the putschists , he might expect promotion ; but he would still be far from the top .
16 The championship leader Massimo Biasion , of Italy , will retain his world title if he repeats his 1988 triumph in San Remo .
17 And I asked him if he found his present abode conducive to the writing of poetry .
18 It 's a great chance for the 27-year-old to revive his career — and Halifax could make the move permanent if he shows his fearsome form of three seasons ago .
19 If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys .
20 If he gives his second- or lower-preference vote to a candidate of a different party , he is saying , " This is the candidate I want to see elected , IF for any reason my first- or any other higher-preference vote does not count " .
21 so erm , I mean it 's all down to Gary , I mean if he wants his new computer , I said to him I said you 're better off getting you know extra three or four grand on the mortgage
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