Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then you 'll regret it the next day |
| 2 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 3 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
| 4 | ‘ I would have thought you could ask it the other way round . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 6 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 7 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 8 | okay , there 's all sorts of them , I mean you can have it the wrong nought , |
| 9 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |