Example sentences of "if he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ What has he got that I could n't give you ? ’ he asked in a dull tone that chilled Ruth more than if he had bawled at her .
32 Joshua , in order to be friendly , asked Harvey if he had heard of Clemenceau 's remark about Lloyd George , made at the Paris Peace Conference after the Kaiser 's War ?
33 If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten .
34 If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind .
35 He looked old and forlorn , in spite of the ferocious beard , as if he had hoped for something and been disappointed .
36 If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion .
37 He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank .
38 Even if he had wanted to , he could no longer afford to go to Greece .
39 She hoped she had given Peter the chance to cry , if he had wanted to , but he had not taken it .
40 Only in the case of Cato may we suspect that he had no alternative to speaking in Latin , though Plutarch is convinced that he could have spoken Greek , if he had wanted to ( Plut .
41 When he opens his mouth , a valve closes to prevent him swallowing when he 's underwater , and he could have ejected that medicine if he had wanted to . ’
42 If he had played in the match he would have been the least accurate driver , the player missing the most greens in regulation and the worst bunker player on the team .
43 Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out .
44 His reaction was so wild that he would have found himself in even deeper trouble if he had connected with Simpson .
45 Then , if he had survived by any chance , he would be hanged .
46 If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene .
47 If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us .
48 Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible .
49 The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink .
50 But nothing would be plausible if he had hounded after him .
51 In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect .
52 For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing .
53 Even so , if he had succeeded in this endeavour , to the point of winning the election , then the ensuing chaos in both the health and educational fields would have been fearful to behold , quite apart from the flight from sterling , and the loss of foreign investment .
54 She would not have minded if he had yelled at her , for he would have had the right to .
55 The foundations might have been securely laid if he had got to Walsingham .
56 If he had meant to , he surely would just have stated " Croats " .
57 He had misjudged the situation , and if he had added to his problems , it was his own fault .
58 If he had offended against the Church he was ready to give satisfaction .
59 Ruth thought she would have preferred it if he had shouted at her .
60 erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund
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