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) ) .
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