Example sentences of "if he have [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had simply burned the rabbit as Meg had suggested … . |
| 2 | Instantly , as if he had somehow thrown an electrical switch , she felt a surge of responsive excitement — so strong and so unexpected that she trembled involuntarily in his embrace . |
| 3 | If he had n't provoked the argument then he had certainly seized on it with relish . |
| 4 | If he had n't become a personnel officer he would have done rather well in the police . |
| 5 | He blamed himself for the death of his friend , thinking that if he had n't used the ouija board , perhaps his friend would still be alive . |
| 6 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 7 | He wrote his plea as follows : if he had n't had a reply from her before noon on the last day of the week ( which meant return post ) he would trouble her no more . |
| 8 | Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he had n't had an audience , and lines to speak ? |
| 9 | If he had n't had the business I would have left him within a month . |
| 10 | Not bad — would have been better if he had n't put the Toyota in its place . |
| 11 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 12 | He got up as if he had n't slept a wink . |
| 13 | ‘ Michael Stein hates James and I would n't be at all surprised if he had n't started a rumour like that himself . |
| 14 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 15 | He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game . |
| 16 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |
| 18 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 19 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 20 | Marco 's devotion to Samavia , given his reflective nature , could easily have seemed priggish if he had not had the Rat as a foil , with his quick memory and his youthful ingenuity . |
| 21 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 22 | Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said . |
| 23 | He sounded far away , as if he had partially covered the mouthpiece with his hand . |
| 24 | They wanted to know if he had ever grown a beard ? |
| 25 | Nobody — not even Finlayson — knew what would have happened if he had ever got the chance to pepper Woolley . |
| 26 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 27 | He would have corrected his flattened and crooked nose — broken in an accident when at school — immediately if he had ever had the money . |
| 28 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 29 | It was as if he had never raised the possibility that she might become so much more to him than his personal assistant . |
| 30 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |