Example sentences of "[adv] you [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She told you Alex was the father , and suddenly you saw the awful vision of history repeating itself . |
| 2 | " From the quarter-deck to the space below you see the utmost extremity of human misery ; such crowding , such filth , such stench . |
| 3 | That 's er , about one fifty for one as long you get the right size and then just , just tear to whatever thing . |
| 4 | Perhaps you saw the two TV programmes on American fundamentalism recently which put the ghastly and unacceptable face of that form of fundamentalism before us . |
| 5 | Perhaps you regard the main function of talk to be giving information directly and honestly . |
| 6 | Perhaps you missed the short period in which the fish were feeding ? |
| 7 | I think first of all Chairman , the point about the Airport 's Policy Consortium that er it is relevant erm , er perhaps you realise the whole purpose of , the risk of debt of the Airport 's Policy Consortium is to actually push er development from Heathrow to Stansted and I would say that it will happen , that 's what they are trying to do . |
| 8 | You came out here to whimper over the fact that you could n't be together in the way that you would like , only you made the unfortunate mistake of running into me instead . ’ |
| 9 | Only you chose the wrong man to play with . |
| 10 | A local , standing nearby , eventually intervened , saying : ‘ Now gentlemen , if only you had the good sense to ask me first . |
| 11 | So you got the same answer for two questions . |
| 12 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 13 | You get a ti so you get the tinned sponges you mean ? |
| 14 | So you have the sudden appearance of a Breakthrough Phenomenon . |
| 15 | So you have the towing rope and then you have a little bit of old rope that is weaker than your rope . |
| 16 | So you feel the same enlightenment that happened to Dylan has also befallen you ? |
| 17 | So you see the commercial aspects were still in there in those days as they are today . |
| 18 | You come back and place your hands on various people 's foreheads until eventually you say the right number . |
| 19 | Always you see the written list after the tenth word and then go through the list again with your PP ( never repeating the individual word of course , but knowing the subject you will now find the words easier to recognize ) . |
| 20 | When ever you see the Multibuy symbol it means the more you buy the more you save . |
| 21 | Yesterday you sent the sad Princess the best message she could ever have — we need you . |
| 22 | Yesterday you had the strange experience of having someone bend over backwards to return your hat to you because you 'd left it behind somewhere and then five minutes later someone stole it . |
| 23 | Yesterday you reported the Scottish executive as having clarified the attitude of the party in Scotland to water privatisation , in the wake of John Smith 's recent speech about ownership not mattering , and Tom Clarke 's discomfiture at being questioned over it . |
| 24 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 25 | The more you pass the more money you get and you get better qualifications . |
| 26 | Now you know the decisive event of American history , the most important single event in American history was of course the American civil war . |
| 27 | Now you know the secret code , work out the proper numbers of these secret agents . |
| 28 | Now you get the odd situation that an old codger like me I 'm telling people who are just retiring about er how to deal with income tax in retirement . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't even invite you here , you simply barged in , and now you have the unmitigated gall to stand on my land and insult me . |
| 30 | But when you 've been , Italian , German , French , and now you have the African league , you know , and you think there must be more too it than this ! |