Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 2 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 3 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 4 | I 'm essentially a social historian , although I sometimes think that if I wanted to find the right adjective , and I 've never been too much worried about adjectives , I would say I 'm really a cultural historian . |
| 5 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 6 | If I wanted to get the highest allocation to units would I pay level or escalating premiums by looking at that table ? |