Example sentences of "you [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , ’ and he said to Mr Flowerdew : ‘ Now you pick hold of the hair on the heel of the horse and lift the foot up . ’
2 Put it on windowsill and I think ooh on a Friday I like using it , I think I 'll go and get a bath and you pick box up , it 's empty .
3 In the Squirrel 's case , 30 seconds after switching on the booster you push Start .
4 First , make sure you book Club Europe Drive at the same time as you reserve your Club Europe flight , calling either your dedicated Executive Club Reservation number on , or your travel agent .
5 Dalglish emerged from a half-hour inquest behind locked doors to offer one of his proverbs : ‘ Before you taste success you get a lot of disappointment . ’
6 You taste blood .
7 You make feminism sound like a set of philosophical opinions .
8 But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents !
9 You 're n yeah but you know how you make fun of me sometimes , how you
10 ‘ I will pay you twice the hourly fee you make modelling — with a guarantee of four months ’ wages , no matter how quickly the Princess recovers .
11 You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think .
12 LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT
13 There is no way you make money out of goats , with feeding , hay-straw , and vets bills ( which are always large ) .
14 ‘ And you make money at this inn-fewer-ants ? ’
15 once you have mailed out your tapes , it becomes somebody 's job to phone all of these people everyday until you make contact and you get some feedback .
16 Experimentation with the points where you make contact with the string is the best way of locating each harmonic …
17 Each time you make contact , identify the " service objectives " ' .
18 As long as you make contact you 're okay .
19 The extracts from a dirty movie fade away and the Inspirals clamber into their Scandia van , delighted with the comments of a Finnish woman journalist who had told them , ‘ You make music that is going somewhere while at the same time standing still and one day it will end in a big BOOM ! ’
20 When yo , people just gather informally , and friends and neighbours and you make music and you sing songs , you tell stories , play instruments , do what you like , eat , drink talk .
21 Elephants have bigger brains than humans but , probably with some justice , we like to think that we are cleverer than elephants and that our brains are ‘ really ’ bigger if you make allowance for the fact that we are much smaller animals .
22 So do n't risk pregnancy — use a reliable method of birth control every time you make love .
23 ‘ You must paint with joy , the joy with which you make love to a woman .
24 Over the piano you make love with !
25 If you make love when there is inadequate lubrication and you become dry , and/ or sore , this can often encourage thrush .
26 ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily .
27 And tell me , do you give that little speech to all the women you make love with ? ’
28 ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked .
29 ‘ But you live with him , you make love with him — ’
30 If you make love to me I 'll have something to look back on with pleasure and gratitude for the rest of my life . ’
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