Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun sg] you [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're in a boat you can look up to it . |
| 2 | He said that the guitar solo is like the window of a song : you 'll be going through the song and then the lead will break and it 's like a window you can look out of while you 're walking by . |
| 3 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 4 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 5 | And I 'd like to , aye , and I just write it down in a if it 's on a tape you can put that pause on and just take line by line , you know . |
| 6 | I tell her of my travels , although none of them is to a place you could easily find on a map , and of the people I have met . |
| 7 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 8 | But she was in a frenzy you could see that ! |
| 9 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |