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

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1 If he had drunk from it , the wounds received in his last dreadful battle against his nephew Mordred would have healed .
2 Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period .
3 But Noades revealed that if he had insisted in altering the payment arrangement of his players , they would have been automatically entitled to free transfers and could have walked out and signed for someone else .
4 It was n't as if he had asked for a fee , he had gone to the school for nothing , out of the goodness of his heart .
5 It was as if he had fainted in his sleep and the recovery from the faint made the level of sleep seem reality by comparison .
6 He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself .
7 Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle .
8 I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous .
9 It is unlikely that Eliot would have taken the trouble to defend Kipling against the charge of race superiority if he had believed in it himself .
10 The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm .
11 Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour .
12 He had been detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act , and the order would have lapsed if he had remained at large for 28 days , unless there was fresh evidence of mental illness .
13 The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand .
14 The plaintiff 's advisers should be sure that the particulars of his special damage take note of all increases in remuneration which the plaintiff would have enjoyed if he had remained in his pre-accident employment .
15 She would have preferred it if he had remained in the living-room .
16 He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book .
17 His face was unshaved and the hands , rigidly clamped together in his lap , were grubby , as if he had gone to bed unwashed .
18 If he had gone to anywhere but scum , he would have been off-loaded by now .
19 He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source .
20 Pushed to the limit of her self-control , she would have eventually surrendered if he had gone on any longer .
21 Mr Farrar said : ‘ If he had gone for help , it is beyond question we would have been able to save Mary Jo 's life . ’
22 Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned .
23 His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’
24 If he had participated in that debate and gone through the moral and ethical gymnastics we were going through , I think things would have turned out very differently . ’
25 It is plain from his private correspondence that , even if he had discovered by himself the mechanism by which species diverge , he had no intention of publishing until after his death .
26 It was as if he had turned into a block of ice .
27 If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her .
28 He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash .
29 I enquired if he had volunteered for Pathfinders , to which he replied that he had thought about it , I told him if he wanted to come he could join my squadron .
30 If he had enquired into it , he would have discovered that there are examples among Huguenot families of names changing in that way , but that nobody named Craingeau or Gringaud or anything else that might sound like Cranko is listed among the Huguenot settlers in South Africa .
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