Example sentences of "[prep] you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearest you 'll get to Tina Turner , dear ! |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of you may think this is a fairy story , something I 've made up , but every word of it is true . |
| 4 | From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive . |
| 5 | Most important of all , are you able to accept each other as equal , mature individuals , or has the parent/child relationship never been outgrown , so that one of you may feel the need to dominate , and the other will begin to lose confidence ? |
| 6 | Obviously any of the rest of you may feel some of these are irrelevant , or that other important ones should be added . |
| 7 | how to handle the nerves , I 'll say right now and half of you may want to walk out of the room . |
| 8 | Some of you may continue the longstanding habit of Christians , of adding ‘ D.V. ’ to the ends of letters describing what you plan to do . |
| 9 | Do n't pull away as chunks of you may detach themselves . |
| 10 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 11 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 12 | Some of you may know Ivan already . |
| 13 | Some of you may know this story . |
| 14 | Computerised databases are just the job for any record storage as many of you may know . |
| 15 | Some of you may need a ‘ recap ’ on how to make a motif appear on the garment the same way round as in the graph , or in reverse . |
| 16 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 17 | Now , some of you may remember , in the words of the old Depression song , ‘ a time when everything was cheap ’ . |
| 18 | Some of you may remember households where there were servants . |
| 19 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |
| 20 | Some of you may have read James Barr 's books on fundamentalism . |
| 21 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 22 | Some of you may have read the book by Helen Waddell about him and his love for Héloïse . |
| 23 | Some of you may have read Mary Craig 's book Blessings . |
| 24 | Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them . |
| 25 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
| 26 | Some of you may have seen leaflets about the knitting competition which is being run on behalf of the Stroke Association . |
| 27 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 28 | Well , if we had been a little more realistic , we would have included another item in the expenditure side — wasted time , which some of you may have included under the heading private study ! |
| 29 | Right I 've mentioned questions you 'll notice that we 've got money and retirement mister John from now most of you may have seen the name in various erm very good speaker John you 'll a you 'll appreciate ca n't really say enjoy his talk because he really goes on and gives you a lot of information you 'll appreciate it rather than enjoy it . |
| 30 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |