Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition .
2 Try to neutralise these tendencies by taking heed of your owner 's complaints , or you may finish up the underdog .
3 Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year .
4 Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test .
5 ‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully .
6 ‘ Tonight , you must carry out the business . ’
7 ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing .
8 You must fill out a form and attend a one-off Awareness Day ( 9am-5pm , with fares on public transport refundable ) .
9 For extended periods of a week or more , you must drain down the household plumbing system .
10 Finally , you must cut out the backing .
11 Or or some vague question like that er for which you must work out the answers .
12 ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’
13 ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’
14 You should open up a bit more , share your problems .
15 If you have an older personal pension , you should check out the details of your plan .
16 Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column .
17 ‘ Then perhaps you should pass on the lesson to Señor Mitchell , ’ he grated .
18 Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind .
19 You should point out the necessity of co-operating with the doctor but you should warn the plaintiff that this is limited to matters relating to his or her medical condition .
20 You should write up the notes immediately after the call before the memory of the call fades ( see figure 7 )
21 But any that have been worn flat or dug out of the applicator base are obviously such favourites that you should write down the names immediately .
22 Why you should take out the Sun Alliance Personal Accident Plan
23 Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts .
24 You should pick up a chair and throw it at me but
25 You might build up the fire a little . ’
26 If you ignore the ‘ whisper ’ of the blocked sink , you might switch on the radio a few days later , and immediately hear of a severe traffic jam in the Dartford Tunnel .
27 He took it — rather as you might pick up a worm in the garden — and popped it gingerly in his mouth .
28 But you might pick up a thing or two just by looking .
29 ‘ I was hoping you might put in an appearance .
30 You might fill in a creation or save date , to pick out files either before or after that date .
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