Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want to create a good impression every time you pick up the phone to answer it . |
| 2 | You are sometimes so stiffly English that you bring out the need to tease . |
| 3 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 4 | It 's the block that goes in the middle , when you put down the clamp pushes that along . |
| 5 | Every time it rains you look out the window to see if it 's going to happen again . |
| 6 | When you give out the task clarify Who ? |
| 7 | If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders . |
| 8 | Put each in turn into a well-known saying or into a sentence — you and your PP can take it in turns as you go down the list saying the set word followed by a sentence which the word stimulates you to think about . |
| 9 | Well we can get to grips with it at this meeting when you talk amongst yourselves er as to how you divide up the base accounts yeah ? |
| 10 | When you take out the Family Bond the investment will be linked to the Family Assurance Performance Fund , which since its launch in January 1987 has achieved an average annual growth rate of over 19% as at 28th February 1990 . |
| 11 | You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms . |