Example sentences of "you [vb base] [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing you want is to start an involved conversation because when you come to do it for real , it can all seem a bit stale . |
| 2 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 3 | The first one is for producing diatonic sus4 type chords and the formula is ‘ substitute 3 for 4 ’ , so to build these chords on every scale degree all you do is delete the thirds from each triad and add in its place the note that is a diatonic fourth ( four letter names inclusive of the root note ) above the root of the chord . |
| 4 | So what I suggest you do is pay an additional three pounds which means that that is now covered for up to five thousand pounds regardless of it 's weight . |
| 5 | Well I think what you do is push the yellow somewhere towards the peg in the middle . |
| 6 | ‘ No doubt you 've been overseeing the physical takeover of your new business ? ’ |
| 7 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 8 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 9 | You 've been cutting the bottom part of the grass ? |
| 10 | For heaven 's sake , you 've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember . |
| 11 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 12 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 13 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 14 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 15 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 16 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 18 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 19 | Make everyone stand in a circle and explain that you have been granted a special power which places people under your spell . |
| 20 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 21 | As a book reviewer of some 25 years experience I am not , and never will be , of the school that thinks that because you have been given a free book , you should give a good review . |
| 22 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 23 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 24 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 25 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 26 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 27 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 28 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 29 | So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder . |