Example sentences of "you [vb base] [pron] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You mean we were the eldest for five years there |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you 're a workaholic , you ca n't resist the temptation . |
| 3 | Yeah you mean he 's an old friend of yours . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean he is a rough , unmannerly soldier who you feared would bring out the thumbscrews . |
| 5 | And er , we get a panel of young engineers and a panel of school teachers and they actually erm go to a school , they sit down , look at the national curriculum and decide which parts they can actually participate in and it 's been so successful at the moment , realise the trouble is we 're somewhere about five thousand , six hundred secondary schools in the U K you realise it 's a mammoth task ! |
| 6 | one , you just divide You say it 's a six-sided figure , divide three sixty by six |
| 7 | ‘ You say it is a good tool , sir ! ’ |
| 8 | Like ya , like you say it is a difficult situation at the moment in n it ? |
| 9 | You say it was a difficult piece for the orchestra , but the Philharmonia was full of very gifted players . |
| 10 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 11 | To come back to Jonathan for a moment , you say he was a great liberal , he was an admirer of Lloyd George ? |
| 12 | Robert came forward and listened intently as the owners — a middle-aged man with an anxious-looking wife — asked nervously , ‘ You say there 's a certain amount of risk . |
| 13 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 14 | ‘ That girl you saw … you say she 's a social worker ? ’ said Iris , brandishing a tablespoon . |
| 15 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 16 | If you speak there 's a black thing that appears . |
| 17 | From what you describe there is a strong possibility of a great deal of scar tissue in the muscle bulk , which will probably have healed tight . |
| 18 | And as you remember I was a silly young twenty . |
| 19 | If you remember it was a blustery day , and you know how easily I take cold . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah I said to her if you look up what they were I 'll pay you for them and I 'll have them if you like he 's a real sweetheart he 's a good boy yeah Look what I bought today Tony . |
| 21 | Sometimes when you 're doing radio interviews they introduce you like you 're a '70s rock star making a comeback . |
| 22 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 23 | Erm but you know they are the actual Inland Revenue . |
| 24 | Only you know which are the right questions for you to attempt . |
| 25 | Er we believe that cost us many many millions of pounds , secondly , there was the worst recession that the airline industry has had , thirdly , has been er a you know we 're a growing company , we 're investing . |
| 26 | YOU know something is a major collectable when the fakers move in . |
| 27 | that you know he 's a retired gentleman |
| 28 | Speedy can of course you know he 's a good little leaper for a small lad but they 're not just gon na be able to whack the ball up there . |
| 29 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 30 | Martha said : " And do n't start making objections , just because you know he 's the better fisherman . " |