Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you may not have that much to compare it with , but certainly in my experience , is that January if I took people round the in January , erm , you sort of made excuses for it . |
| 2 | ‘ These days everyone uses computers , and I did n't want to look an idiot if I told people I did n't have a clue how to work one ! ’ |
| 3 | Well yeah I know but if I do people |
| 4 | ‘ She was very sensitive and if she thought people did not like her or she thought her friends were ignoring her she became paranoid . ’ |
| 5 | How do you all like , if you tell people , you know , without causing offence , do you normally tell people after you 've done it ? |
| 6 | If you know people who know people you can find almost any information you want . |
| 7 | Certainly be a good game if you know people , you 're not . |
| 8 | I think if you compared people who are struggling with very little resources with very low incomes , and with er living in areas of kind of multiple deprivation , erm , then you would , you would find that maybe people in those circumstances have higher rates of of trouble and sometimes it 's er it 's also those areas that are more heavily policed that children are more likely to be picked up in , and picked on . |
| 9 | The there 's a widespread idea that if you let people have guns the result will be more crimes of violence and more murders , and therefore , people conclude , er at least they do in this country , that only the state should have a monopoly of firearms , so only the police and the army should be allowed to have firearms . |
| 10 | ‘ If you let people use their abilities , they will normally walk their way around their difficulties and come up with a straightforward solution , ’ says Neil . |
| 11 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 12 | Yeah , but it makes it very difficult , if you got a play off , it gets , if you get people on the same same score |
| 13 | Yet , if you show people the ad , they will tell you just the things that the strategy was looking for . |
| 14 | You talk about everything , do n't care if you provoke people , there 's no rules , it 's very free-form . |
| 15 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 16 | But often I find if you ask people these questions they get very interested erm and this interest is important . |
| 17 | which said if you looked people in the eye |
| 18 | You do n't need contracts in this world , not if you trust people and you have an understanding — and let's face it , we needed the money , we stuck together . |
| 19 | Both parties can get something from that situation , if you trust people and you look at things a relationship over a period of time rather than this particular thing this is what I want now this is what I 'm gon na get rather than well okay I 'll help you do this now and later on they 'll help me do something else , it becomes a win win . |
| 20 | If you affect people that way it 's a great bonus . ’ |
| 21 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 22 | How do ya qualify if you see people er at |
| 23 | There is no altogether painless way of escaping from a pay-as-you-go scheme , particularly if you want people to make substitute provision . |
| 24 | If you want people 's attention , you 've got to scream . ’ |
| 25 | If you want people to think well of you , do not speak well of yourself . |
| 26 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 27 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 28 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 29 | But whatever , we are keen on it now , we should always have been , and if you treat people at the work place just like dirt , if you continue to turn Britain into a sweat shop , drive down wages , drive down people 's rights , then you may get some form of external investment come into this country , but we will never compete with the Dutch and the Germans and the Scandinavians , and we will never have a happy and united country . |
| 30 | In my experience , I find that you get what you expect in life , and if you trusted people more , you would probably get more trustworthy staff . ’ |