Example sentences of "you [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are others who never will , and you 'll have a constant battle to establish you right to have a share in making decisions , and knowing where the money goes . |
| 2 | Does it get you down to read every week that you 're a heroin addict ? |
| 3 | Analytical reading requires you constantly to separate the historian 's main ideas from minor or subsidiary ones . |
| 4 | It seemed eminently believable that you , or possibly your family , had been annoyed , devastated — whatever — on finding out that your grandfather had been playing around with a young Irish girl , and had sent you over to demand an explanation , exact retribution … ’ |
| 5 | You 're welcome to search this place if that 's of interest to you , but please , I must beg you not to let the press get a whiff of my name . |
| 6 | Well ha ha had I known I would have told you not to take a copy you see . |
| 7 | This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders . |
| 8 | Has n't anyone ever told you not to shine a torch in someone 's eyes . |
| 9 | Girls , can I please persuade you not to touch the dish , whatever else if you need slide it then use , you see that |
| 10 | And do n't I tell you not to break the back down and wear your canvas shoes like slippers ? |
| 11 | I 'll trust you not to tell the Josephs , but why should you want to know ? ’ |
| 12 | Oh , oh mummy 's tired , how many times have I told you not to have the pen near the furniture though young lady . |
| 13 | A testator who had a son and daughter made a will and provided for his daughter as follows : ‘ I instruct you not to make a will until you have children . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I warned you not to make a habit of this , ’ a deep voice remarked gruffly , close to her ear , and she realised that the swaying sensation was that of Fen carrying her to her own bunk . |
| 15 | Because of this I warn you not to cross the moors at night . |
| 16 | I would ask you not to distract the boatmen with anything this morning . |
| 17 | So , briefly : Flaubert teaches you to gaze upon the truth and not blink from its consequences ; he teaches you , with Montaigne , to sleep on the pillow of doubt ; he teaches you to dissect out the constituent parts of reality , and to observe that Nature is always a mixture of genres ; he teaches you the most exact use of language ; he teaches you not to approach a book in search of moral or social pills — literature is not a pharmacopoeia ; he teaches the pre-eminence of Truth , Beauty , Feeling and Style . |
| 18 | Made from solid steel with a porcelain-enamelled finish , it has detachable legs and a vent that you close to extinguish the briquettes or charcoal . |
| 19 | Can I ask you though to devise a name that you as a team would wish to be known by , and then I can start er , on the scoreboard . |
| 20 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you here to clean the windows ? ’ |
| 22 | I have ordered you about , Devlin has ordered you about and even Ana has dragged you here to please a man . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did not call you here to discuss the offices . ’ |
| 24 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
| 25 | The conventionality of particular devices is made palpable by ironic comments from the author — such as : ‘ Thus , by the commonest article of the trade , having gained your interest , the action of the story will now be suspended , leaving you grumpily to consider a sort of doll biography beginning fifteen years before ’ ( Eikhenbaum 1978 : 255 ) . |
| 26 | I 'll come and see you tomorrow to decide the details . ’ |
| 27 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 28 | This book , rather than simply telling you how to execute a manoeuvre , suggests valuable methods you can use to practise more efficiently . |
| 29 | But I 'm I 'm not here to teach you how to do the pitch . |
| 30 | find stat view very difficult to use myself but er when the time comes , once you 've got a few that are filled in we can erm well I 'll show you how to do an S P S S data file and , and erm so you can bash your data in and if you bring it back we can turn it into a system file and analyze it . |