Example sentences of "if he have be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 2 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 3 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
| 6 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 8 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now , as he waited for his flight , he felt exhausted , as if he had been playing an enormously difficult game of poker for high stakes . |
| 11 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 12 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 13 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 14 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |