Example sentences of "you [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
| 2 | Mm I think if you try and do it here , so you make it into a shoe shape , you curl it all up into a shoe shape , where do you think it 's going to go ? |
| 3 | But you see if you make it as a , a division it makes it easier . |
| 4 | And I think , that the more you forbade , forbid the thing , the more attractive you make it to a child . |
| 5 | Add them when you 're multiplying , times them when you raise them to a power , so we do n't want to start changing this to one over and things , because we 'll lose that easy way of doing things . |
| 6 | So you raise it to a power , multiply the indices , when it comes out as a fraction , it does n't matter how you |
| 7 | No it 's probably er a reaction like you do if you tickle him in a certain place they go do n't they ? |
| 8 | If you introduce them before a year old , do not give them every day . |
| 9 | But if you borrow it from a in er mortgage company , you 're gon na , you 're gon na borrow twice that , you gon na have to pay twice that much back . |
| 10 | A surprise attack is a superb card to have up your sleeve , especially when you combine it with a mind-numbing yell and a distracting dummy movement . |
| 11 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 12 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
| 13 | Mr Browning paced about and then said , ‘ You place us in a difficult position , Wilson , and one we can hardly approve . |
| 14 | You preserve it in a tin or bottle till you want it . |
| 15 | If you want them on a coach , they 'll be I think there 's six up there is there ? |
| 16 | Use water wisely , putting it exactly where you want it with a Soakerhose . |
| 17 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 18 | If you honour me with a reply it will be in kind ; and then , God defend the right ! ’ |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
| 20 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
| 21 | I know , to shun , you hold it as a Rule , |
| 22 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Here , 'old on , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't five years old , y'know , I 'm twenty-one , and I ai n't lettin' you put me into a bath with no clothes on , it ai n't first thing decent . |
| 24 | ‘ You put me through a series of hoops — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You put me on a kind of honour … |
| 26 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 27 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 28 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 29 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 30 | You bury them under bits of the motorway , and if the motorway 's finished , you put them on a traffic island with bushes on it . |