Example sentences of "you [vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know when you 're waterskiing with a really powerful boat and you slant your skis as you curve to send up a whole curtain of water ? |
| 2 | His prayers are like the noise you make to drown out an insupportable thought . |
| 3 | It is , however , something to keep in the back of your mind on a shoot , and if you intend to carry out a post-production edit , pace can be a major factor in determining how you organise the assembly of your shots . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear Mother , Mrs Mitchell says , ‘ Do let us know if you mean to bring home a little convict . ’ ’ |
| 5 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 6 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 7 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 8 | A visit to Salcey is all the more rewarding and exciting if you manage to see even a few of its shy inhabitants . |
| 9 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 10 | You seem to take up an awful lot of energy and time . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Blake , somehow you seem to have entirely the wrong idea about me . ’ |
| 12 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 13 | Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up . |
| 14 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 15 | If you decide to take out a personal pension , what are the costs involved in commissions to advisers as well as the costs and expenses of the pension provider ? |
| 16 | Birds possess a similar skill as you will discover if you try to dismantle even the untidiest and most apparently haphazard of twig nests . |
| 17 | And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week . |
| 18 | There is some leeway as to when you choose to bring in the next hod of coal and restoke your boiler , but not a lot ; leave it too long and the fire goes out , and you must start all over again . |
| 19 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 20 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 21 | However , if you do take out a foreign currency loan , make certain that it is possible to switch back into sterling at least once , and at short notice without incurring heavy charges , otherwise you are very exposed . |
| 22 | Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one . |
| 23 | You can of course do this in your LSTRAIN process , if you prefer to run just the two processes . |
| 24 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 25 | you 've missed quite a few have n't you ? |
| 26 | He thinks you 've become quite the little horsewoman . ’ |
| 27 | And I 'm sure you 've seen where the chief constable says he wants more bobbies on the beat , well perhaps this is a way to a to achieving that . |
| 28 | No , a mere little child , but pressure , yes I mean you 've hit exactly the right word , which makes the game and the big occasions very different . |
| 29 | Well the thing is after a while when you 've done quite a few it comes it comes fairly easy , and you can do it in your head . |
| 30 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |