Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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1 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
2 | If you 've spare people or even just another pair of hands , you ring their second numbers as well just to block the lines and it never hurts to put a few idiot inquiries through to the dealing house main switchboard . ’ |
3 | If you are unemployed or actively looking to change your job you will increase your chances immeasurably if you let other people know and make a positive effort to follow up any leads you receive . |
4 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
5 | If you ask old people whether they ever think of themselves as old , they tell you it is only when they are ill or feeling very unhappy . |
6 | But it sometimes helps if you remind key people which side their bread is buttered on , do n't you think ? ’ |
7 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
8 | So here he has erm quite a long discussion in the fact that if you have inexperienced people , they will often make the make a quick initial assessment of a situation which is being and rejected by a more experienced person . |
9 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
10 | Peter Gilroy , deputy director at Kent SSD , said : ‘ Research shows if you leave elderly people 's needs simply with personal care and do n't take into account their anxiety about their home , they are likely to go into a spiral of decline . ’ |
11 | If you treat other people , including your child , with consideration , you will need very little in the way of formal manners teaching . |
12 | However , if you deprive other people of your feelings of warmth and appreciation you deny telling them what you enjoy about being with them . |
13 | If we allowed single people a 50 per cent . |
14 | But , as it happened , some of those islands , particularly if they had native people on them , already had pigs too , too — sometimes the small Sulawesi ones . |
15 | If they had important people like er such as Mark and his wife , the pianist , erm you 've heard of him of course . |
16 | Avoid stressful situations , especially if they involve other people and really have nothing to do with you . |
17 | If he discounts other people 's slivers , he can give only his limited view and the true proportions of the 3-dimensional many coloured " whites " and yolks may be grossly misrepresented . |
18 | If he includes other people 's slivers , he may well perpetuate damaging myths about that person . |