Example sentences of "you [vb base] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you qualify as an English solicitor you can work outside the U.K. for government organisations , such as the United Nations in New York or the Commission of the European Community in Brussels . |
| 2 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 3 | So if you plug in an old Strat it will probably sound more like a Strat should sound . |
| 4 | You owe that to the extraordinary talents which you have received from a beneficent God ; and now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician , utterly forgotten by the world , or as a famous Kapellmeister , of whom posterity will read … |
| 5 | You speak like an educated woman . ’ |
| 6 | you lie in an ice-cold drawer , two postal codes away , |
| 7 | If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you look like an absolute stunner , do n't you , Bunjy ? ’ |
| 9 | And probably to a you know to an untutored ear it would sound reasonably similar . |
| 10 | EVERYTHING YOU GET WITH AN ORDINARY COOKER , PLUS AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF EXTRAS |
| 11 | A concave underwater shape will give superior performance when you progress to an intermediate level . |
| 12 | If you like heavy bedding make sure you ask for an extra quilt . |
| 13 | Every time you indulge in an habitual act you bind yourself in with the others . |
| 14 | You go to an avant-garde exhibition in Germany or in Italy , in France , in New York of course , and you find that a lot of people want to be informed about it and even , if they are not normally art people , they accept it in the sense of not mocking it . |
| 15 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 16 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 17 | You go after an honest character . |
| 18 | But you are n't helpless ; you start with an amazing arsenal and are able to pick up yet more weaponry along the way . |
| 19 | You start with an ordinary saloon car . |
| 20 | If you start as an associate student , the courses you successfully complete can be counted towards a degree should you choose to transfer to the undergraduate programme . |
| 21 | The New York graffiti craze , which meant just spray-painting your name again and again , was the most basic , single-minded assertion that you exist in an indifferent world . |
| 22 | If you are over 50 years of age , if your skills are not in demand or if you live in an economic blackspot , you may find that your chances of finding a suitable job elsewhere are poor . |
| 23 | Do n't imagine that because you live in an insignificant little village away " in the bush " you wo n't see anyone but the villagers . |
| 24 | As a player , you 're only concerned about what you do as an individual , but as a manager you 're concerned for the whole team , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Of course you would n't put up with such nonsense , but you do in an outdoor shop . |
| 26 | He then drifted gloomily away , noting that this could not be ‘ an open-ended matter that you do in an idealistic whim ’ . |
| 27 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 28 | If you come across an unfamiliar word or phrase , find its source . |
| 29 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 30 | What would you say about yourself , supposing that you write as an objective outsider who knows you well ? |