Example sentences of "[prep] something you [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never easy keeping track of something you ca n't even see ! ’ |
| 2 | You can use abstracts as an indication of something you might want to read , or you can just read and learn from the abstracts themselves . |
| 3 | I wish you 'd think of something you would like for your birthday . |
| 4 | I wish you would think of something you would like for your birthday |
| 5 | It must sound like something you would say spontaneously . |
| 6 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 7 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 8 | I just seems like something you could just keep building and building forever . |
| 9 | You sit there and spend a million dollars on effects to try to make it sound like something you can already go out and buy . |
| 10 | To one side was a row of lights which flickered on and off like something you 'd get |
| 11 | He looked like something you 'd frighten children with on Halloween . |
| 12 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 13 | How do you know you 're not paying now for something you 'll get later ? ) |
| 14 | Almost the first thing Mathers said was , ‘ You 're asking for something you ca n't get . ’ |
| 15 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 16 | I mean you know if if you were complaining about something or if you were asking for something you 'd be asking for it because you knew what you wanted only as you said it 's all about being clear about what you want |
| 17 | We 're also going to ask you to create your own press release about something you 'd like to create , in a sense . |
| 18 | Personally , I prefer my fingerboards either to be bound with something you can see or left plain as nature intended , but for some reason Saga obviously like their fret-ends disguised . |
| 19 | A little sick or badly sick , sick with something you can catch or not catch ? ’ |
| 20 | Please take my advice and forget it before you get into something you ca n't control . ’ |
| 21 | If you are on edge , perhaps you are being pushed into something you might regret . |
| 22 | He does seem to suggest , that if you 're directly interested or if you have a direct interest in something you ca n't take an objective view , and I would say that actually , members have shown their ability to erm , to achieve something different from that , the way they wear different hats at different committees , Mr comes to mind where he will argue for the D S O's , at the D S O managing board , and for the client at Education Committee . |
| 23 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |
| 24 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |