Example sentences of "you have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boris began sleeping with her , villagers who wondered what would happen if the husband found out were told by wiser villagers : ‘ If you 'd lived in a big town you 'd know that the husband knows . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ E asked me to describe yer , which I did , thinkin' maybe 'e was goin' to tell yer you 'd come into some money , but 'e said you 'd taken in a young woman , that the pair of you 'ad nicked 'is wallet an' made off with it . |
| 3 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 4 | How , how would you have felt as a poor peasant |
| 5 | Erm it looks like you 've gone from a lower cost one to a higher cost one . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've volunteered for a harder , ’ Bicker retorted . |
| 7 | That 's the nice thing about Romantica … you can have a highly active holiday if you want to but if you do n't , you can wander around the Club and feel like you 've landed on a beautiful tropical island ! |
| 8 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 9 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 10 | So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range . |
| 11 | So , if it comes out as one , one squared is one so you 've accounted for a hundred percent or all of the variants in the other variable which means that if you know X you automatically know Y , or if you know Y you automatically know X. When you 're doing a correlation study , it 's very hard to work out what 's the dependent and what 's the independent variable because by it 's nature you do n't know . |
| 12 | You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’ |
| 13 | See like , long hair here , so it 's hanging down , scraggily , so you 've got like a shaved head , with all these bits here ai n't ya ? |
| 14 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 15 | You 've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I 'm dragging.Tell us what to do . " |
| 16 | When you 've coped with a positive situation , which is in fact , I believe is is er , will do more harm that good , as a personal I believe , |
| 17 | In the new South Africa , if you 've worked for a white family for more than five years , you get to keep the house … |
| 18 | ‘ And so you 've come on a friendly visit ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 21 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 22 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 23 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 24 | To be a true professional , you had to live in a closed world . |
| 25 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 26 | I am delighted that you have asked for a personal illustration and further details of SaverPlus 2001 . |
| 27 | You owe that to the extraordinary talents which you have received from a beneficent God ; and now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician , utterly forgotten by the world , or as a famous Kapellmeister , of whom posterity will read … |
| 28 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
| 29 | If you are an England player you have to behave in a certain way . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ At least , ’ said Penny Warlock , ‘ you can say you have taught in a good school . |