Example sentences of "if [pers pn] have [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 | If she had to bribe the wretched receptionist she would . |
| 5 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 6 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 7 | If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ? |
| 8 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't get home if you have to go the that play , give me ring . |
| 9 | What 's more , if you have to buy the same machine for more money elsewhere , you can also claim the difference in price from the original supplier . |
| 10 | Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 12 | Future generations in both the North and the South will not forgive our generation if they have to bear the future cost . |