Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] you [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary .
2 Plants will survive quite happily if you group them all together in the bath , soak them well , and leave about an inch of water in the bottom of the bath .
3 I would doubt very much whether you having your hair cut would seriously damage your future together .
4 Note that your essay in this case is not centrally concerned with Coleridge ; in fact you will almost certainly do less well if you write about Coleridge than if you discuss a different author .
5 Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers .
6 " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics .
7 This question allows for the possibility of an actual mistake , big or small , as well as acknowledging that you can always do even better than you did .
8 You 'll think more clearly after you 've had a break . ’
9 Perhaps then you 'll think more seriously before you play with someone 's emotions in such a heartless way .
10 An intensive conditioner will work much better if you cover hair with a polythene bag after applying to seal in body heat .
11 " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . "
12 You two 'd stick together even if you did n't agree would n't you ?
13 ‘ You did n't really think I 'd run away just because you tore up a few of my clothes , did you ? ’
14 I ca n't cook or clean because you all do that , I do n't even sew very well because you do it better , I ca n't play or draw , not really — ’
15 You do n't sleep so much as you get older .
16 When , when I 'm not sure what 's happening , and people are sort of weaving about and things like that , you can use that and you can just tick over and your ready to move if you need to and you can stop quite quickly if you need to as well .
17 You can set this so that the machine will stop at points you have preselected : if you zero at your starting point on the tape , the machine will stop there automatically when you rewind .
18 Now this next part is very important — READ THE NEXT SENTENCE AND THEN DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE AS I ASK .
19 First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar .
20 You 'll go just now if you do n't stop .
21 The sheets got changed once a week , but you could change more often if you got blood on them or something .
22 Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’
23 However , with the Land Rover we can go as far as you want . ’
24 Which is one of the reasons , by the way , why another thing you will get murdered for in the er workshops is taking two hammers and hitting the heads against each other , because they 're hardened and y they may well shatter quite explosively if you do that .
25 ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’
26 But do n't get so tiddly that you keep hiccoughing , or giggle all the way through , especially at your own jokes before you reach the punchline .
27 You must never diet so quickly that you lose the muscle tissue that gives your body its shape , firmness , and definition .
28 You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing .
29 It does n't seem that long since you had him as a puppy
30 or , or days , you can pick actually just when you want to do it
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