Example sentences of "[v-ing] your [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example the interviewer may preface a clutch of questions with a general phrase such as , ‘ I 'd like to talk a little about your home background ’ , or ‘ Let's take a look at the sort of experience you have had in the retail business ’ , so that you will find yourself keeping your answers to the subsequent questions pertinent to the area in which the interviewer is interested and do not wander off the point . |
| 2 | Friendship is about caring for the other person , respecting the other person , sharing your interests with the other person , enjoying just being with the other person — but not about suffocating the other person with big slobbering kisses ! |
| 3 | ‘ See you 're doing your rounds with the first night presents . ’ |
| 4 | Calculate the area of the following shapes , giving your answers in the suggested units . |
| 5 | I think they 're also important in terms of not losing your links with the wider society . |
| 6 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
| 7 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 8 | Could you kill yourself by putting your fingers into the electric socket ? |
| 9 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 10 | Mock interviews and tape-recording answers will pay handsome dividends at the interview itself when you would otherwise find yourself practising your answers for the first time . |
| 11 | If you are ‘ editing in camera ’ , that is shooting your scenes to the correct length and in the correct order , the ‘ still frame ’ button will help you to begin each new shot at the right place on the tape . |