Example sentences of "[conj] you be [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 2 | Some of the information in other chapters on nutrition , health , financial problems , and coping with stress may be useful for the daughter at home , but if you are such a daughter there is something else you need too — a healthy determination to protect your own right to a reasonable way of life , while striving to improve that of your parent . |
| 3 | If you are successful the file copy will hopefully be written in a previously unused part of the disk . |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you 're such a fan of Rainbow 's way of life , why did you try to do what you did to her ? |
| 7 | If you 're self-employed the outlook would be even worse . |
| 8 | If you 're self-employed the outlook could be even worse . |
| 9 | You know , if you ne if you 're busy every night and |
| 10 | I hope you can now set the carriages to do this for yourself , but if you 're stuck the carriage settings are shown in Figure 1 . |
| 11 | There are tests that can be run if you 're worried the baby- ’ |
| 12 | If you were skilled the card flew to the back of the pavement and the next player threw , trying to cover the first card with his . |
| 13 | For if you were such a brain , then , provided that the scientist is successful , nothing in your experience could possibly reveal that you were ; for your experience is ex hypothesi identical with that of something which is not a brain in a vat . |
| 14 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 15 | Well , imagine the reaction if you could nonchalantly mention that your strings were made from magnetically active nickel steel with a reinforced twist at the ball end because you are such an animal when it comes to whammy-bar aerobics ! |
| 16 | ‘ I asked you here because you are due a bonus . ’ |
| 17 | When you 're at the top it 's the best job in the world — when you 're bottom a football manager 's lot is not a happy one . |
| 18 | When you are sure the thing is hot , tip it over . |
| 19 | When you are pre-recording the music , remember to record it at a constant high level so that you can make all the downward level adjustments when the final transfer is made onto the video tape ; this minimises tape hiss . |
| 20 | When you are small the world you are born into simply is . |
| 21 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me , Miss Levington , ’ he enquired with silky smoothness , ‘ as you 're such an expert on human nature , why did Giles Denton make a point of publicly embarrassing you at the Grand Hotel ? ’ |