Example sentences of "you [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The scent of jasmine greets you as you walk through a creepered archway into the wide lawn . |
| 32 | We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way . |
| 33 | If you walk into a medieval parish church , the sight and feel of an old stone floor will immediately tell you that here is a church that has been spared the restorer 's hand . |
| 34 | You walk into a flagstone-floored hall with a triple arched screen . |
| 35 | Here are some easy rules to remember before you embark on a major scheme : |
| 36 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 37 | Your glasses and keys you put through a small slot . |
| 38 | That 's got rid of the sludge in the tank and everything , you put in a complete sealed unit on . |
| 39 | If you put in a great big long string does it change the t |
| 40 | You wo n't get any increase this year , but if you put in a good bid now you might get your allocation upped for next year . ’ |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | The price you see is the price you pay — even if you wait for a late booking ! |
| 43 | When you act in a loving way , the other person is more likely to respond and to show the best side of their nature . |
| 44 | You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post . |
| 45 | Ironic , then , is Wilekin 's immediate comment : ( " Indeed , lady , you speak as a gracious person " ) |
| 46 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 47 | When you shop for a new bed make sure you try out lots of models . |
| 48 | You swim from a splendid beach , you sunbathe , and you feed the stately and friendly pelicans . |
| 49 | Reckons Rundgren : ‘ The album can be different each time you hear it … you swim in a musical direction until you change the vector . |
| 50 | He also said that you attack like a well-trained guard dog . |
| 51 | I swear they 're so loud it 's like it 's like you know when you kick through a big pile |
| 52 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 53 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 54 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 55 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 56 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 57 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 58 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 59 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 60 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |