Example sentences of "you [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean like a soldier 's salute , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | What you mean like the boys ' |
| 3 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 4 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 5 | A very clear definition of what you want from the historian 's text . |
| 6 | IT 'S bitterly cold outside so you leap into the driver 's seat and switch the heating on full . |
| 7 | The Alternative Prospectus , Welfare , Overseas , Mature and Postgraduate Student handbooks are just part of the information service you receive from the Students ' Association before arriving . |
| 8 | Well I mean , the , the the irony is , if you look in the Brigade 's statistics chart , the one that 's attached to that one , the aeroplane crash would come under special service calls other so it 's a miscellaneous column , so it 's not even a road accident , it 's some other . |
| 9 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 10 | For this type of block you slide diagonally forwards so that the angle of your advance takes you clear of the opponent 's front kick . |
| 11 | The third example uses a short but wide diagonal movement of the front foot to take you clear of the opponent 's incoming reverse punch . |
| 12 | Relate your corrections to what you know of the child 's general approach to spelling . |
| 13 | You should tell the plaintiff anything that you know about the defendant 's doctor from previous occasions . |
| 14 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's a bargain when you consider how much protection you get for a building 's contents alone , ’ says Kelly . |
| 16 | Suppose you 've scheduled your meetings till 12.30 but you get through the morning 's business more quickly than you expected . |
| 17 | Coetzee understands both related forms : ‘ You get into a person 's private life , inside his inside . |
| 18 | I dare say he 's bred you true to a Welshman 's bounden duty , and taught you the sacredness of a blood debt , but I think it was not he who sent you here alone on such an errand . |
| 19 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 20 | Although we have some beautiful and rare things like a Queen Anne doll and the earliest-known example of a jigsaw puzzle , the things I love best are the most ordinary , fragile toys — the sort of things you find in a schoolboy 's pocket . |
| 21 | Here are some attractive places to bear in mind when you feel like a day 's outing . |
| 22 | I tell your dad cos he called you , he said that you go at a snail 's pace did n't he today ? |
| 23 | Now that mirror 's the one that you look into when you go in the ladies ' toilets . |
| 24 | But if you contribute to the world 's culture , if you have a good idea , compose a tune , invent a sparking plug , write a poem , it may live on , intact , long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool . |
| 25 | But one thing that 's definite about all this , as you step into the artist 's comfortable home , with his admirers and relatives and his stacks of music awards and pictures of his celeb pals ( Keith , Bonnie Raitt , Eric Clapton ) all over the place , is that ‘ Boom Boom ’ is the punchline to a life that 's been big and astonishing and bloody eventful … |
| 26 | Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner 's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general 's map . |
| 27 | And I says , You come into the foreman 's hut , to the reporter I says , and I 'll give you a statement . |
| 28 | Yes , well you know , as you come to the Boar 's Head you can , it 's on a crossroads is n't it ? |