Example sentences of "if [pers pn] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I work on the game , I can get £150 in one night . ’ |
| 2 | If I work through the holidays as well as the terms , and get another mortgage , perhaps I can manage those fees . |
| 3 | Mind if I work in the garage today ? ’ |
| 4 | We may , for example , think to ourselves that it would be very useful to ask a housewife if she works outside the house at all , and this sounds easy enough in our heads . |
| 5 | So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing . |
| 6 | President-elect Bill Clinton , who takes over from Bush on January 20 , said Mr Bush 's decision gave the message : ‘ If you work for the government you 're above the law . ’ |
| 7 | Now it is generally observed that most civil servants whatever country they come from make sure that they er give each other pay rises and I know it happens in this country the Civil Service pay pays quite well and it 's certainly a key erm feature in er pay structure in developing countries that if your , if you work for the government you are very very well paid , like government wages can be , you know , four , five , six , ten , twenty times |
| 8 | But I mean I , I , I 'm I 'm guessing , I 'm assuming , I 'm not sure he did , but I have seen erm when I was in Edinburgh studying communications , if you work in the Sun which was erm a broadsheet for Murdoch on it . |
| 9 | But if you work in the holidays , what 'll you do with Dickie ? ’ |
| 10 | If you work in the hospital you wear their uniform . |
| 11 | If you work in the EFL profession , it is in your interest to keep up with the latest developments in the field . |
| 12 | If you worked for the probation service |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if you worked for the blacksmith , ’ this old man said , ‘ that was me ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you worked for the Times you 'd have known John . |
| 15 | If you worked in the industry you would see what was happening and you would be aghast . |
| 16 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 17 | Those who were already more vulnerable , however , due to lack of such a relationship , were half as likely to develop depression following a provoking agent if they worked outside the home . |
| 18 | Related to this is the issue of the double workload women have to cope with if they work outside the home — paid work by day and unpaid work for the remainder of the time . |
| 19 | Consultants are often fearful that these new styles of service will lead to the quality of care of acutely ill patients on the wards suffering ; they believe that the focus of community work is away from those who are most in need or are concerned that if they work in the community they will lose the professional day-to-day support of consultant colleagues . |
| 20 | And then suddenly we find the district auditor making comments about an environmental strategy , which I would have thought was , if he worked on the basis of the last one , rather outside his remit . |
| 21 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |