Example sentences of "you [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' ya want a game of table tennis ? |
| 2 | D' ya want a cup of Dawn ? |
| 3 | At the funeral near Belfast , Jack was startled by a tap on the shoulder in the church and a man 's voice hissing , ‘ Do ye want a lift to the cemetery ? ’ |
| 4 | and d' ya have a lot of ? |
| 5 | D' ya get a lot of kids in there ? |
| 6 | Ye take a gander at the engines . |
| 7 | You squeeze a dollop of special paste into a small cup at the base of the burner and light it . |
| 8 | LIFESPAN will use this code to uniquely identify the media items for offline storage ( the built-in intelligent archiver ) ; eg. if you pick a LIFEID of LT , media for this process must be labelled LT0001 , LT0002 etc . |
| 9 | But if you pick a couple of complete no-hopers , rank outsiders , well , there 's no need to stay , is there ? |
| 10 | Now when you pick a paw pear before prickling when you pick a pawpaw for a prickly pear and you pick the wrong pear next time beware ! |
| 11 | ‘ Then you , also , must be given that pleasure , for I should not care for you to miss an instant of any pain , Wolfprince . ’ |
| 12 | In the var section you declare a variable to be a pointer to a variable of that type . |
| 13 | The Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan cover virtually every aspect of your holiday , from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home , and because we want everyone to know where they stand with us it clearly spells out our obligations to you and your commitments to us when you book a holiday with us from this brochure . |
| 14 | All this is possible if you book a car through Enterprise to be collected at your arrival airport , for the duration of your holiday . |
| 15 | This curious misuse of language means that if you book a spot at anything less than the top rate , some time in advance , the station can re-sell it , at a higher rate , to anyone who wants it , at any time before the cancellation date . |
| 16 | If you make a hash of any of the work , he may worry that his reputation could be jeopardized , and could charge extra for putting things right . |
| 17 | You do n't want to lock your pictures away in a vault , so you make a vault of the room they 're in . |
| 18 | You make a window for us . ’ |
| 19 | How you make a choice of career is likely to be a significant factor in determining how successful it ultimately is . |
| 20 | It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet . |
| 21 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
| 22 | You make a hole in the outside wall and run the waste pipe through , fit an elbow and lead another pipe into the hopper head . |
| 23 | And God tells him , he says , you make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp so that everybody can see it they look to that serpent of brass , they will be healed . |
| 24 | I think you need to check out those figures first , before you make a decision on it . |
| 25 | I think if we go through and have a look at these other ones that Jenny has done and you make a decision at that point as to whether . |
| 26 | Now the effect is that if you make a decision from London , if you impose a decision from London , the people you impose that decision on are very very demoralised . |
| 27 | If you make a mistake with Word , right , then you can always undo it , right , if you ever make a mistake do n't panic cos you can always undo it but you only get the one chance if you go on working then you ca n't undo it . |
| 28 | If you make a mistake in DataEntry , use the arrow keys to move to the end of the field you want to edit , and |
| 29 | ‘ The problem is that once you make a mistake in deciding the child needs testing it can set up a chain of events that can lead to severe problems for the child , ’ he says . |
| 30 | If you make a mistake like that again , you 'll lose your job . ’ |