Example sentences of "if he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 2 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 3 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 4 | as if he had been considering Preston 's problems and this was his solution to them . |
| 5 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 6 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 7 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 8 | This had only added to Brian 's sense of guilt , as if he had been prying , probing into something personal that was not his business . |
| 9 | Asked if he had been regarding his voice coaching , she said : ‘ I believe so . ’ |
| 10 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 11 | If he had been listening , then , he would have heard my right hon. Friend 's point about the lay-by . |
| 12 | But he looked up and smiled quite normally , and she did n't have the nerve to ask him if he had been listening . |
| 13 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 14 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 15 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 16 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 17 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 18 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 20 | Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying . |
| 21 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 22 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 23 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 24 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 25 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 26 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 27 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 28 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 29 | She said it looked as if he had been fighting . |
| 30 | Woolley looked as if he had been fighting a forest fire : his eyes were red , his face was filthy , and one ear had bled down his neck . |