Example sentences of "you [verb] [pron] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you make it to the end of Chapter 7 and have registered a significant number of Yeses , I shall have done pretty well . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you made it to the Gala then ? ’ |
| 3 | Business asked the 10 youngest : ‘ How did you make it to the top so quickly ? ’ |
| 4 | Will wiggling your bottom help you make it to the top ? |
| 5 | Do you regard yourself to the left or to the right in politics ? |
| 6 | He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . " |
| 7 | So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers . |
| 8 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 9 | Now why do n't you introduce her to the office routine — and perhaps show her the chalets ? ’ |
| 10 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 11 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 12 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 13 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 14 | Can you give it to the panel secretary ? |
| 15 | Will you send him to the gallows ? |
| 16 | Will you send one to the widow Benedicta at St Erconwald 's in Southwark ? |
| 17 | Erm w why did n't you send them to the ones on the fla on the flats ? |
| 18 | If you have not yet paid these fees please can you send them to the Office as soon as possible together with an SAE . |
| 19 | Can you send it to The Times ? ’ |
| 20 | Can you refer me to the part of the key diagram which shows the scheme for York to which you referred a moment ago ? |
| 21 | ‘ You subjected her to the sight of yourself indecently exposing yourself by way of a prelude to what you later did , ’ added the judge . |
| 22 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 23 | Will you bring me to the hotel now , or are you frightened ? ’ |
| 24 | And he was saying , ‘ You owe it to the audience , you 've got to take that next step . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You owe it to the community , ’ |
| 26 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 27 | If you can not find someone to conduct a mock interview then leave a tape-recorder on while you practise some of your more important answers and the way in which you describe yourself to the interviewer . |
| 28 | Should you use one to the exclusion of the others ? |
| 29 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 30 | Check your coral sand and gravel for pieces of metal before you add it to the tank . |