Example sentences of "if he have [vb pp] " 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 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
3 | If he had joined Scum first off he would nt even be in England now . |
4 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
5 | Watson could be the owner of four Masters titles instead of two if he had parred the hole in 1978 and last year . |
6 | It would have been a little more civilised if he had pointed out that she was a guest at the hacienda , instead of sitting here with that look on his face . |
7 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
8 | She felt as if he had hit her . |
9 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
10 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
11 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
12 | She was shaking as she lurched back , almost as if he had thrust her away from him . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In worldly terms , he missed his opportunity , for he could almost certainly have obtained Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees on investiture and homage if he had insisted , for at that moment Henry would have had to agree to anything to get his support . |
16 | His thoughts teetered nastily , and he wondered if he had uttered the possibility in order to ward it off . |
17 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
18 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
19 | It was as if he had slapped her in the face . |
20 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
21 | When I was silent he came towards me , took my hands , and said with a formal air as if he had prepared this speech , ‘ I 'm so sorry I upset you . |
22 | I asked him if he had posted the letter . |
23 | The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate . |
24 | If he had asked . |
25 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | In any case , she was too busy attacking the contents of her briefcase when she got home to have gone out with him , even if he had asked her — which he had n't . |
28 | If he had asked her she could n't have answered . |
29 | You know , would n't it be nice if he had asked me out . |
30 | 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 . |