Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
2 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
3 | If I 've got to write a comment for a start |
4 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
5 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
6 | And even if she had decided to use a delivery service , there would normally be a full check-list to be ticked off before parting with any money . |
7 | She felt so dreadfully sorry for him that if she had tried to utter a word she would have broken down . |
8 | If you 've had to put a plan on ice or wait for an opportune moment to announce a life-expanding decision then you need wait no longer . |
9 | If you 've forgotten to buy a card and the shops are all closed , simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures from magazines , paste them onto a piece of card and then write your own personalised message inside . |
10 | If you 've fancied having a go at ice-climbing but the thought of all the discomforts of a Scottish winter keeps putting you off , take heart . |
11 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
12 | You can if you 've got to have a card . |
13 | Work is more important than socialising to A types , so if you 've got to make a choice between the two , it 's the work . |
14 | If you have decided to use a mount , the card or fabric should be cut slightly smaller than the mount and then taped to it securely . |
15 | In other words , if you have decided to write a crime novel you are absolved from the duty of giving the world another Dostoievsky 's Crime and Punishment . |
16 | However , this wo n't work if you have begun to enter a new program . |
17 | If we , if we had targeted making a profit of say five hundred and sixty five thousand pounds just for instance |
18 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
19 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
20 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
21 | Where the official receiver receives a request for a meeting of creditors to be held in a case where he had decided not to summon such a meeting , he must withdraw any notices given by him that he did not intend to summon such a meeting and fix a date and venue for the meeting not more than three months from the date of the request and proceed as if he had decided to summon a meeting . |
22 | Thus even if he had wanted to introduce a programme of radical social reform , Alexander had to tread carefully . |
23 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
24 | The defendant may defend on the return day even if he has failed to file a defence ( Ord 9 , r 9(2) ) . |