Example sentences of "if he [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 2 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 3 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 4 | The Chancellor was thus in a much stronger position than under Weimar , and , additionally , he could request an early election if he asked for a vote of confidence and this was rejected by the Bundestag . |
| 5 | He was the one who had asked Werewolf if he played in a band , and the one I 'd seen being ticked off by Cawthorne . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 7 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 8 | He 'd wanted to escort her home but she had threatened to commit arson if he came within a quarter of a mile of the theatre . |
| 9 | If he embarked on a task she stepped in and took it from him ; she interrupted him when he spoke . |
| 10 | He arrived in a dark suit and a black shirt buttoned down over his dog collar and kept his hands folded so that nobody could see if he had on a ring at all , let alone one like a winegum . |
| 11 | Toby was a well-known golf writer , even if he wrote for a newspaper that was rarely , if ever , seen in the boardrooms of Britain . |
| 12 | up until now , but , well are different now this is the last place he stopped , he would walk down the road if he heard of a job for five pound more |
| 13 | In every other way he was doing wonders but it would all be lost if he fell into a trap and saw the paper closed . |
| 14 | If he thought of a spacecraft , for example , then Gedanken would find herself in a spacecraft ! |
| 15 | If he remains in an off-side position or affects play while caught off-side , he must be penalised . |
| 16 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 17 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 18 | He is a big likeable feller who looks as if he belongs in a jazzband playing the stringbass . |
| 19 | Yes , he could go there if he wished as a lay evangelist . |
| 20 | Nigel wondered if any film star would be discerning enough to employ him if he applied for a chauffeur 's job . |
| 21 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 22 | If he asks for a review board he gets it because there is no provision in the regulations for even the Secretary of State to refuse such a request . |
| 23 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 24 | They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up . |
| 25 | If he had a hangover from too much of the strongest real ale to be found the night before — Jack was a formidable seeker-out of head-banging beers with frightening names — or if the play was too slow , or if he disapproved of a local rule , or a local official , or a new initiative by the PGA , or … |
| 26 | Furthermore , even if the person warned did not repeat the conduct about which he had been warned , he could be arrested if he engaged in a different act or course of offensive conduct . |
| 27 | If he opts for a basic valuation , for which he pays a lower fee than for either of the other two , he will normally receive a copy . |
| 28 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
| 29 | Finally , a person who is given permission to enter for a particular purpose will be a trespasser if he enters for a different purpose . |
| 30 | If he works in a relatively narrow vein , he does so constructively , and his strong , lucidly expressed improvisations provided a robust foil for the trumpeter . |