Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
2 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
3 | I 've always thought you are what you are and you should n't pretend to be anyone else . |
4 | Well at your age you should have a hankie with you , you should n't have to be told ! |
5 | I 'd say , whenever possible , you should always try to be in a position of strength . ’ |
6 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
7 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |
8 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
9 | You 'll just have to be content with the JB instead . |
10 | ‘ You 'll just have to be firm with her she says . |
11 | You could pull that loose too , so you 'll just have to be patient and lie still for now . |
12 | I do n't know who you belong to , Leonora , but no one 's anxious about you yet , obviously , so you 'll just have to be patient . ’ |
13 | And what actually happens is , there 's a description of it in there , and I 'm going to give you some more literature for you to peruse and get used to it , and you 'll actually going to be working very closely with your management on this , right , is that you will record all your activity every week . |
14 | You think you 'd quite like to be with animals would you ? |
15 | The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not . |
16 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
17 | What you could really do with is leaving |
18 | It 's a shame , what yo , I think you could really do with is somebody sort of part-time who is kind of flexible on , on when they 're part-time so they could fit in with the with the sort of fluctuation |
19 | ‘ You need not apologize for being so upset , ’ Morton said quietly . |
20 | Organisation they say — though I 've never cracked it myself — is the key to success and you ca n't hope to be efficient unless , for a start , you have a tidy garden shed or garage , where most people store tools these days ! |
21 | If you ca n't bear to be in a van with five bastards than you should n't be in a band . |
22 | If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time . |
23 | ‘ I 'm warm toward people , but you ca n't expect to be loved . |
24 | Never mind the title , you ca n't afford to be reckless in this brain-bending game . |
25 | A favourite of many and an all-time classic you ca n't afford to be without . |
26 | And you ca n't afford to be too closed to the outside world . |
27 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
28 | You ca n't afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to your handbag … |
29 | you ca n't afford to be ill in America , I tell you what |
30 | Unless you talk to people regularly you ca n't claim to be in touch with what they are thinking . ’ |