Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you sit there like a dog chained to a stake fixed in the past , mouthin' your worn-out shibboleths , still full of hate for England and your Church , too arrogant to make your peace with God . |
| 2 | Never feel uncomfortable warning people you encounter halfway up a mountain who are dressed for the beach that they are taking a great risk proceeding without extra clothing and food . |
| 3 | ‘ Appearances count for a great deal in this life , and if you appear tonight in an outfit like the ones you seem to favour then no one will believe our relationship is anything but a business one . ’ |
| 4 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 5 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 6 | It 's an accident on the M Six , and er now if you look there in a moment you 'll see a car come out of control up through there . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that you look remotely like a lioness — more like a half-drowned kitten . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You sound just like a policeman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You sound uncommonly like a policeman to me , searching for evidence . |
| 10 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 11 | You seem almost like a farmer to me . ’ |
| 12 | But it 's it 's such a broad issue , that any opportunity we do get , to have a a broader discussion , for more individuals to contribute their or have their say , you know again on a workshop or something , I would very much support that . |
| 13 | Well I 'm trying to gen you know just as a generalization now . |
| 14 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 15 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 16 | If you call me a fucking bitch now maybe I 'd forgive you kind of like and you know like in a while I 'd forgive you . |
| 17 | You know more about a guy in one night in bed than you do in months of conversation , ’ she once said . |
| 18 | But never , er from the wrong side of the bench , you know Never as a criminal . |
| 19 | Jim will walk with his arm round Anna 's waist , and they tend to vanish if you turn away for a moment . |
| 20 | He was the person when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say ‘ would you water my geranium ’ . |
| 21 | He was the person , when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say would you water my geranium ; that is the historical sum of William Shakespeare , it 's the truth . |
| 22 | On the other hand , when you go abroad to a country where you 're completely unrecognized , you 're reminded what it 's like to be a member of the public , and that can be very sobering — life without the smiles and knowing looks . |
| 23 | When you go home on a lunch time , you do n't need it when you go home at lunchtime . |
| 24 | If you think instead of a Venn diagram metric , then you will understand that not all metrics permit averages . |
| 25 | First , the shot-gun approach involves the buyer saying ‘ Unless you agree immediately to a price reduction of 20% we 'll have to look elsewhere for a supplier . ’ |
| 26 | If you wish to develop assembler language programs , we suggest you do so on a computer which does not hold programs or data that you can not afford to lose . |
| 27 | Er yes , the , the , I think the one bit of it that is not Mao 's is that , is that you do unfortunately in a sense sense have these statements from the , the various bureaux and this is a , th this absolute terror is okay . |
| 28 | Here you hit uphill to a green guarded by a seven-foot deep bunker . |
| 29 | That 's why you come away with a sense of release . ’ |
| 30 | I mean it 's hard t y I mean you come away with a list of t things that you 've talked about , maybe headings and that 's about it and then you go and build your own notes up . |