Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 2 | Continue westwards to the village of Liverton following the B1366 south for ¼ mile when you branch off on a track on the right then go left to pass Lane Head Farm and Stubdale Farm . |
| 3 | And do you find that if you sit down with a guitar to write , with all the best intentions in the world , you end up … |
| 4 | And you sit there like a dog chained to a stake fixed in the past , mouthin' your worn-out shibboleths , still full of hate for England and your Church , too arrogant to make your peace with God . |
| 5 | To do this you must know : what you are capable of , what you want out of a job , and your weak spots so that you are prepared to counter any negative questioning . |
| 6 | Never feel uncomfortable warning people you encounter halfway up a mountain who are dressed for the beach that they are taking a great risk proceeding without extra clothing and food . |
| 7 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 8 | as if you walk round with a shotgun armoured tank . |
| 9 | You walk around in a skirt and wear a bra , how was I to know ? ’ |
| 10 | So you get in , and you walk in to a row . |
| 11 | See previous to that it was maybe every five years you put in for a wage increase a wage application . |
| 12 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 13 | If you break down on a motorway , do not leave your car , just wait for the motorway patrols to find you . |
| 14 | Your attire must tell other walkers and climbers how serious you are , indicate the status you enjoy in the world of mountaineering , and not make locals in the mountain 's nearest bar fall dangerously silent when you pop in for a pint on the way back home . |
| 15 | It 's an accident on the M Six , and er now if you look there in a moment you 'll see a car come out of control up through there . |
| 16 | Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through . |
| 17 | In this small picture , you look down on a couple of hundred thousand people and their bodies are as invisible as microbes . |
| 18 | ‘ Not that you look remotely like a lioness — more like a half-drowned kitten . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You sound just like a policeman . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You sound uncommonly like a policeman to me , searching for evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 22 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 23 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 24 | If you jump out of a loop with a GOTO ( How could you ! ! ! ) you should jump back in . |
| 25 | A nasty cross sea seems to haunt its approach which nearly always brings you beam on to a lee shore and makes steering difficult . |
| 26 | You seem almost like a farmer to me . ’ |
| 27 | But it 's it 's such a broad issue , that any opportunity we do get , to have a a broader discussion , for more individuals to contribute their or have their say , you know again on a workshop or something , I would very much support that . |
| 28 | Well I 'm trying to gen you know just as a generalization now . |
| 29 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 30 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |