Example sentences of "you 've [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At one stroke ye 've halved the white man 's burden ! ’
2 You 've missed the depressing bit , Karl . ’
3 ‘ But surely you 've missed the whole point … ’
4 And setting foot inside Tuscan Club apartments you know that you 've made the right choice .
5 If the ad contains the words Company Member of the Master Locksmiths Association , and/or displays the MLA 's distinctive logo of two crossed keys ( reproduced here ) , you can be confident that you 've made the right choice .
6 I think you 've made the right choice ; sun and sand and … ’
7 Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows nothing , she
8 Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows
9 You 've lost the personal touch with the higher management .
10 You 've seen the mac , you 've seen the yellow florry jacket , the fluorescent jacket
11 But it it it needs the heat to lift the the the white p You 've seen the white polish
12 Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you .
13 I said , do you realise you 've eaten the whole packet !
14 So use the other half of the diagram , and then when you 've done the other half , the whole thing is a two-fold rotation about the centre of C.
15 Well let's think about it once more I know you 've done the correct thing cos I 've just looked .
16 You 've done the easy bit , Alan , ’ he joked , sipping orange juice .
17 I 'm thrilled you 've done the decent thing — ’
18 Is that all you 've done the whole evening — read ? ’
19 to your situation now , so imagine you 've done the old planning of the future like we said , yeah ?
20 Although bargaining is often very tough you 've always got a better chance if you know with whom you are dealing — it helps if you 've had the odd meal or drink together or a game of squash .
21 So that at the end of the five years , assuming you 've paid the maximum stake at seven and a half percent , you would , otherwise you would receive the nine thousand back of course , and at that rate you would receive two six seven one and that will include , if you 're a twenty five percent payer , six hundred and sixty seven that you would have otherwise lost in , that would have gone out in tax .
22 You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch .
23 You know when you 've rubbed the olive oil on and licked it all off again ? well what 's that funny little stick for ?
24 You 've won the top prize ,
25 ‘ So you 're still carrying on , even though you 've finished the grand project . ’
26 When you 've got the golden syrup off , when you 're eating the golden syrup can you
27 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
28 When you 're hitting the main chord tones pretty hard and you 've got the other scale tones as passing notes then you can start going for the other chromatic tones .
29 Oh you 've got the other side to do .
30 well you 're better again Jim , you 've got the fire er so you put the fire , you put the fire off , well this central heating comes from the back of that fire does n't it , so if you 've got the central heating on and you 've got it on full
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