Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] [adv] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | " Well , if you go on like you 're doing now you may live only a few more weeks or months . |
2 | You could always cheat a little and use skeletonised leaves for a cream colouring , though if you look carefully through your collection of pressed materials you may find quite a few unusual shades . |
3 | You 'll find quite a few of yours will be May |
4 | Now , if like me you 've yet to attempt this big production number you could pick up a few tips here , after all , we 've a number of professionals in this hundred , hoteliers , dressmakers , cake makers , photographers , and video makers , registrars , ministers , but above all , we have a lot ex-brides here , and let's start off by finding how many we have . |
5 | So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ? |
6 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |
7 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
8 | Yeah well you see you can make quite a few nice little pounds for yourself if you can say to your friends I can undercut I wo n't chat while you get across here if you can say to your friends I can do it cheaper than the |
9 | You can retrieve quite a few , wa waste a lot of time , anyway . |
10 | okay it 'll be that so you can eventually you can build up a few tricks that 'll help you sort out a lot of the spelling . |
11 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
12 | You can pick off a few young leaves for salads or cooking . |
13 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
14 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |