Example sentences of "[det] [det] [conj] you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It 's much , it holds much more than you 'd think does n't it ?
2 ‘ If you have money to spare , it makes sense to pay these off first because they cost much more than you 'd earn from savings .
3 Much more than you 'd imagine , ’ she said in frigid tones , ‘ despite my being an American .
4 And the cost of this valuable protection is much less than you might think … premiums of Cashguard Plus start from just £6.95 a month and when you consider the amount of cover you can enjoy for that amount , the Plan really does represent value for money .
5 And the cost of this valuable protection is much less than you might think … premiums for Cashguard Plus start from just £6.95 a month and when you consider the amount of cover you can enjoy for that amount , the Plan really does represent value for money .
6 I suppose you have to be able to afford all that if you can afford the car in the first place .
7 The Barclays Residential Buildings Policy covers all these and you can add cover for contents of furnished property .
8 ‘ There 's no way of telling just by looking , Manderley , any more than you can tell most of the gays from the straights , or Catholic from C of E. Let's go . ’
9 But she could n't see him getting smaller , any more than you can watch a plant growing .
10 That is to say , you can not describe sixteenth-century English as if it were a variant of RP any more than you can do this for divergent present-day varieties .
11 Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards .
12 I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think .
13 He sat by his mother 's bed , biting the skin at the side of his nails , and thought that of all the grudges you bear , the grudges you bear against your parents are the ones you live with always — you can not fight them any more than you can fight heat or cold or some virulent infection in the blood .
14 You can not get out of Hegel by simply contradicting him , any more than you can get out of those other Hegelian systems , Marxism and psychoanalysis , by simply opposing them : for in both your opposition is likewise always recuperable , as the workings of ideology or psychic resistance .
15 You could not hide extreme good looks any more than you could disguise extreme ugliness .
16 Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam .
17 Well you can actually , but you ca n't say I like you any more but you can say I do n't like you any more .
18 Or , is any more that you can add to that ?
19 I 'm not giving any more so you should have thr erm three main handouts , groups , yeah ?
20 Seems a good idea on the whole , but whatever you do , do n't go writing to that ruddy man at the tax office any more or you 'll get his back up . ’
  Next page