Example sentences of "you 've " in BNC.

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1 But why not pluck up the courage to do what you 've always wanted ?
2 If you 're worried that you 've recently take a risk , go to the special STD clinic at your local hospital .
3 Once you 've taken the drug , your next decision could be influenced by that drug .
4 ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year .
5 ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart .
6 Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’
7 If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly …
8 Do n't worry about going out there to give the greatest performance of any particular speech and then come away depressed because you know you 've done it badly .
9 OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned .
10 In the theatre you 've worked a lot with Steven Berkoff and his own plays .
11 And since then you 've worked a great deal together ?
12 The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world .
13 Start from what you 've got .
14 It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her .
15 As so often , first idea best , though you only discover that when you 've decided to discard it and try something else .
16 When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it .
17 That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest .
18 You feel you 've failed ? he asked me .
19 You 've done what you wanted ? he asked .
20 You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’
21 You 've got a perfect motive .
22 ‘ Now , young Quince , ’ he said , ‘ you 've always wanted a spot of real detective work to do .
23 You 've disgraced yourself once too often , Andrew .
24 And this time you 've disgraced us too . ’
25 You 've got it all wrong .
26 You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’
27 ‘ You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’
28 You 've got to be truthful , like in a court of law .
29 What is everyone going to start thinking when they see how you 've cut the ground from under my
30 If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’
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