Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] you [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms . |
| 2 | A lady like you should appreciate such a gentlemanly gesture . ’ |
| 3 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 4 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 5 | ‘ No , of course it does n't ; I 'm a fool to think a woman like you would give my sister a second thought . ’ |
| 6 | Thorfinn said , ‘ The venison of the Naas , the fish of the Boyne and the cresses of the Brosna are the due of the High King , but devil a man of you will have stirred himself over it . |
| 7 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 8 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 9 | Well I think that a number of you might have seen that definition of quality . |
| 10 | I have one of my pretty rare fits of le cafard , and I thought a letter to you would help . |
| 11 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 12 | And on H Little H and I 'm skipping through them because I 'm sure a lot of you would like to get to the tea pot . |
| 13 | If I said to you I missed Neighbours on Friday , what happened , a lot of you could tell me , could n't you ? |
| 14 | Long time officials , lay officials , staff at the organization , you might as well face up to the fact colleagues , a lot of you will have to go . |
| 15 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 16 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 17 | a couple of you might have seen him last saturday — he is — hmm — quite big … |