Example sentences of "you [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 2 | And you put it in Chinese food ! |
| 3 | So you get this in your hot water cylinder , we can get it in boilers , erm you get it in hot water pipes and it happens a lot in in hard water areas , Scale will dissolve in the acid in the bubbles of Twelve point seven . |
| 4 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 5 | You keep me in hot water all the time … |
| 6 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 7 | You 'll upset Georgina much more , and yourself much less , if you do it in cold blood . ’ |
| 8 | Is there any connection why have you coloured it in red biro ! |
| 9 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 10 | Well there you have it in seventeenth-century language . |