Example sentences of "you [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold the camcorder to one subject at a time , starting a new shot every time you change to a new subject ; each of these shots could be of say five to ten seconds duration . |
| 2 | ‘ Before you change to a personal plan you must compare like with like : |
| 3 | In chronic cases if you change to a complementary remedy you generally start from 0/1 again and work up . |
| 4 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 5 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 6 | Listening can be done in a classroom-type situation where you listen to a live language helper or to a tape recording which can be played over and over again . |
| 7 | If you travel to a tropical country , write to that country 's tourist office to tell them that you are concerned about the preservation of their forests . |
| 8 | You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . |
| 9 | The more status you give to a large number of authority figures , the more , relatively , you diminish your own . |
| 10 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 11 | got ta recognize when you get to a certain stage that like if you drink any more you 're gon na be ill . |
| 12 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 13 | You refer to a recent study of mine on the success and failure of leveraged buyouts . |
| 14 | This necessitates OLE ( object linking and embedding ) functionality and common dialogue boxes — i.e … the pleasant way you navigate to a given file with the pretty yellow folders . |
| 15 | If you have grade 1 obesity , it amy take between six weeks and six months ; grade 2 obesity , three to eighteen months ; and grade 3 obesity , on to three years , depending upon your starting weight and closely you adhere to a weight-loss programme . |
| 16 | Before you switch to a new card firm , do n't cancel the old one until you have been accepted by the new issuer . |
| 17 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
| 18 | You go to a certain pub ‘ for the vibe ’ ; you do n't go to another pub because you 're ‘ vibed out ’ . |
| 19 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 20 | If you are interested in public affairs , which is usually political in nature , you go to a public affairs expert . |
| 21 | Remember , if you go to a late-night party , you 'll need to make up those lost hours of sleep — probably at week-ends . |
| 22 | However , the other aspect is that if you go to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 23 | However , next time you go to a large supermarket for your supplies ( or if you shop daily , the next time you go to your local shops ) consider your buying habits . |
| 24 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 25 | If you move to a new address , you should inform the council in the area you have left and in the area you have moved to , of your change in address . |
| 26 | And if you move to a new house , remember that other people may still have keys to the premises — fit new locks , and use them ! |
| 27 | After a run of say five or six seconds , press the button again to stop the machine on record-pause while you move to a new position for the next shot — this might include both the house and part of the garden . |
| 28 | The new flexi-age retirement provision is unlikely to help you if you move to a new job , since it only applies to employees of 20 years ' standing . |
| 29 | All camera shots are external and the camera position and angles changes when you move to a different location . |
| 30 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |