Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want somewhere in the region of about four engineers to each school so work it out yourself , it 's quite a job to actually get the ratio right . |
| 2 | You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's . |
| 3 | The way he explained it to Boy , it was one of those moments of giving up , one of those moments when you throw away your still half-full packet of cigarettes as you walk home in the drizzle and you say out loud , well that is it , that is the last time . |
| 4 | To soothe the discomfort , if the thrush is severe , your doctor might give you pessaries — pills you put directly in the vagina — or cream . |
| 5 | To soothe the discomfort , if the thrush is severe , your doctor might give you pessaries — pills you put directly in the vagina — or cream . |
| 6 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 7 | You look here in the paper and see how much they are . |
| 8 | If I were you know unaccountably in the south of France or elsewhere or wherever you know in Dundee erm and not available . |
| 9 | Course she 'd been working hard well er not working hard you know just in the cleaning like that . |
| 10 | But it would be no good to them and say well you know right in the middle of nowhere , cow er sheep or cow country , there are a number of courses we would n't touch because we would n't be able to get enough sus er you know even with five erm major businesses . |
| 11 | But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover . |
| 12 | Africans take failure far more seriously than you do here in the West . ’ |
| 13 | Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service . |
| 14 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 15 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 16 | It is very difficult persuading someone to lend you money when they know that you have never in the past paid it back . |