Example sentences of "if he [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not known last night if he would be charged . |
| 2 | He was in a Niagara Falls jail yesterday waiting to hear if he would be sent back to Britain after being refused entry to America . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you be staying ? ’ enquired Miss Harker as if he would be doing her an immense favour . |
| 4 | He contemplated the palms as if he might be seeing past and future in them , and then he turned her hands over and examined the backs . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , it is weird , and I do n't think he is completely right in the head , Ari , but I 'm afraid it looks as if he might be telling the truth . ’ |
| 6 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he suggested softly , as if he might be making it easy for her , although she could n't imagine why he should . |
| 8 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 9 | Nuadu stopped and the Robemaker stopped with him , as if he might be saying : well , Wolfprince ? |
| 10 | She found his ‘ return to the Church ’ peculiarly disconcerting , almost as if he might be going to become a clergyman himself . |
| 11 | For a fleeting second he wondered if he might be dreaming , but this time he had woken into a nightmare . |
| 12 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 13 | If he can be consulted , this should be done , but again full account has to be taken of his then capacity to make up his own mind . |
| 14 | At least the locked door designed to keep him in also keeps his enemies out , if he can be said to have any enemies . |
| 15 | The routine pollution , then , is one which the field officer can keep private as between himself , the complainant ( if any ) , and the discharger ( if he can be detected ) . |
| 16 | The scale of the problems will be different , but a chap who can run ICI , if he can be bothered to help a small business , will do it very well from his experience . |
| 17 | We need to see if he can be admitted to hospital . |
| 18 | If he can be put in his place by anyone , young or old , male or female , why do we come across him everywhere ? |
| 19 | If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics , he could prove an inspired choice . |
| 20 | The ideal person , if he can be found , is the young barrister in good practice who is rapidly rising and who may take you up with him . |
| 21 | However , if the latter is a rogue he is likely to have disappeared and if he can be found will probably be penniless . |
| 22 | If he can be found … |
| 23 | Once the most suitable candidate has been identified , it is ideal if he can be interviewed by the person who will be his immediate superior in the overseas post . |
| 24 | He is prepared to come to Britain and live with me here but I do not know if he will be allowed . |
| 25 | Paid by the job , when he finally knocks off , he has no idea if he will be working the next morning . |
| 26 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 27 | The prodigal , if he could be called that , had returned . |
| 28 | He was remanded in custody for enquiries to be made if he could be sent to a probation hostel . |
| 29 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 30 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |