Example sentences of "you [verb] [pron] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Rachel , I 'm sorry for what 's happened to Jennifer , I told you that , but do n't you think there 's the chance she might just understand ? ’
2 Do you think it 's the change of life that 's me ?
3 Do you think it 's the drink that 's doing that ?
4 ‘ Do you think it 's the baby ? ’
5 D' you think it 's the wheel of fortune ?
6 This whole business of sex education and teaching morality in schools , do you think it is the school 's responsibility or do you think mum and dad ought to play more of a part ?
7 Do you think it was the case that when Shakespeare was actually writing these plays he had any real concept of the richness of his producing , or was this all superstructure which has been put there by various university professors since ?
8 Do you think it was the case that when Shakespeare was actually writing these plays he had any real concept of the richness of what he was producing or is this erm all a superstructure which has been put there by various university professors since ?
9 Excuse me , do you know which is the way for Earth ? ’
10 After both the disaster and the sinking in the Channel last week , the government will Lord did you know he 's the Shipping Minister ?
11 ‘ How did you know it was the motorbike service ? ’
12 Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder .
13 Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do .
14 ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’
15 It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned .
16 So why I said to you on the telephone as you say it 's not what you say it 's the way you say it .
17 Yes , but when you , when you say it 's the end of time it 's , you get some people saying yes it 's always the end , for some country it 's always er collapses or what me have you , it 's always then for some government or country
18 As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster .
19 Because at present you 've got what you told me were the horse walks which are the tracks out here with
20 ‘ And you assumed I was the father , no doubt ! ’
21 ‘ Had you decided she was the woman for me ? ’
22 Can you see what 's the difference between me
23 Right let's Oh do you see there 's the road sweeper .
24 Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year .
25 The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity .
26 Of course , ’ he smiled , ‘ you know they are the Sons of Dives ?
27 You know we 're the ones accused of doing these things at the last moment .
28 You know we were the Poms , not you lot .
29 He had once said to Anna , in a touching burst of confidence , ‘ You know what 's the matter with me ?
30 erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ?
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