Example sentences of "be you [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When 're you going to prune them ? |
2 | Come on Jane , who 're you going to tell us about ? |
3 | Or are you hoping to keep her in ignorance so you can go back to her when you get tired of me and start wanting to respect yourself again ? |
4 | ‘ Are you expecting to hear I hijacked her en route and left her trussed up in a lay-by ? ’ |
5 | Are you will to support us . |
6 | But , even so , pride would not allow Fabia to kowtow to anyone , so that it was in the coolest of tones , her expression wooden and unyielding , that she opened her mouth and asked him bluntly , ‘ Are you prepared to give me an interview or not ? ’ |
7 | Now , are you prepared to let me look at your research programme or not ? ’ |
8 | Are you prepared to take it on or what ? |
9 | Are you prepared to answer it ? ’ |
10 | Are you prepared to accuse him of insincerity ? |
11 | ‘ Are you prepared to tell me what was in it ? ’ |
12 | ‘ Are you daring to suggest I 'm being dishonest with Doreen ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Are you trying to turn it off or on ? ’ |
14 | Are you trying to say I should have trusted you over all those … those … betrayals ? ’ |
15 | Are you trying to deny you 're responsible for her condition ? |
16 | Knowing his plan is to develop the character of Christ in my life , I can much more easily say ‘ What are you trying to teach me Lord ? ’ when I am offended , instead of my natural ‘ Why me Lord ? ’ |
17 | ‘ What are you trying to teach me Lord ? ’ recognises the sovereignty of God . |
18 | What are you trying to persuade them to do ? |
19 | ‘ Why are you trying to split us in two ? |
20 | ‘ Look here , ’ said Felicity half-resentfully , ‘ are you trying to depress us , or what ? |
21 | ‘ Why are you trying to put me off ? ’ |
22 | ‘ Are you trying to stop me seeing him ? |
23 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
24 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
25 | ‘ Are you trying to annoy me , young man ? ’ |
26 | What are you trying to bully me into saying , Luke ? ’ |
27 | ‘ Why are you trying to flatter me ? ’ |
28 | He saw how crafty their question was , and said , ‘ Why are you trying to catch me out ? |
29 | What are you trying to get me to believe now ? |
30 | ‘ Are you trying to get us all strung up ? ’ |