Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] they [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 2 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 3 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 4 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |
| 5 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |
| 6 | Well the flowering house plants , we hope you 're going to be given for Christmas , things like cyclamen and indoor azaleas and also your indoor bowls of course will last much longer if you give them the coolest , lightest position you can . |
| 7 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
| 8 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 9 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 10 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 11 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 12 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 13 | The local policeman took it in hand , and nobody grumbled , if he gave them a good clout . |
| 14 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 15 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |