Example sentences of "if they take " in BNC.
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| 1 | treat employees sympathetically if they relapse and give them another chance if they take advice and undergo treatment |
| 2 | ‘ If they take seven piglets in a night , ’ he said , ‘ that 's £70 lost straight away . ’ |
| 3 | Employees approach their manager to discuss the possibility of a break and if they take up the option they are kept in touch with progress via magazines , company literature etc . |
| 4 | By abolishing that hated earnings rule we have enabled pensioners to keep their retirement pension , even if they take a job in retirement . |
| 5 | Ordinary friendships and activities outside the marriage can also cause tension if they take no account of marital commitments , as another young woman found out : |
| 6 | Looking for a house or flat means taking lots of details from estate agents and viewing properties if they take your fancy . |
| 7 | ‘ But if they take 'er I swear I 'll not lose sight of 'er . |
| 8 | Wary men should attempt a glimpse of such a girl 's feet , should she appear by their fireside , for if they take the form of hooves it is wiser to flee . |
| 9 | If they take three months you will be financing 25 per cent of your year 's sales and at four months you will be financing 33.3 per cent . |
| 10 | Reilly added : ‘ I 've instilled into the England players that if they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces . |
| 11 | If they take place from the children 's earliest years , they 'll be seen as a natural resource in family interactions . |
| 12 | Thus women are caught in a double bind : if they take a ‘ compliment ’ at face value they confirm men 's right to treat them as ‘ open persons ’ , while if they ignore the remark or reply negatively they may be accused of rudeness and/or showered with abuse . |
| 13 | Indeed , one of the researchers ' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we 'll be likely to have — whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen , in which case I 'll need to prepare lots of questions , or if they take ten minutes to say ‘ Good evening ’ — in which case I 'll start praying . |
| 14 | So with regard to these beings , the Chewong know that they are vulnerable to attack , but that if they take proper care in their day-to-day behaviour and avoid places where potentially harmful beings are known to live and set their traps , they have a fairly good chance of being healthy and fit . |
| 15 | If they take my ship away , I 'm going to kill somebody . |
| 16 | If they take any other course of action they must be prepared to defend it . |
| 17 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 18 | Yes , and people should tell you if they take it , mm , mm . |
| 19 | Just as it is unwise to tell children that the stork brings babies , using the stork as a symbol , because this leads children astray if they take it literally , so , in religion , the symbolic language used interferes with the process of developing rationality in human affairs . |
| 20 | Teaching skills not only benefit the students nurses will be involved in teaching ; these are skills the nurses will need if they take senior nursing posts , while patient care is also improved . |
| 21 | The enlightenment derives from the need for commercial success , from the necessary recognition by members that their business can not succeed if they take more out of it than it can stand . |
| 22 | if they take an |
| 23 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 24 | I 've asked many people I 've met who sell drugs if they take them and they say , ‘ No , no ’ . |
| 25 | In 1930 , at the height of the sectarian Barbe-Celor leadership , Nizan declared in a tone that was reminiscent of the cultural theses of Kharkov : " Do not recommend the latest bourgeois treasures to the workers : if they take your advice , the confusion and failures of the bourgeoisie will become their confusion and their failures … |
| 26 | What if they take poison or something ? ’ |
| 27 | These people , young people often , who do some childminding , if they take in children , |
| 28 | Some people find that if they take tomatoes |
| 29 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
| 30 | He cries in his sleep — God dammit — for my mother and if they take her away too then he 'll just turn his face to the wall and fade away . |