Example sentences of "your [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that your text makes it clear where the quotation comes from ( see pp. 107 – 8 ) . |
| 2 | Your faith gave me new life and strength . |
| 3 | Does your drinking make you careless of your family 's welfare ? 3 . |
| 4 | Setting up the program can be time-consuming — you have to back up your entire hard disk , repartition it and encrypt it — so you 'd have to have some really important data on your machine to make it worthwhile . |
| 5 | I am sorry if I appeared to spring the letter on you and I fully understand your desire to get it right . |
| 6 | ‘ Does your job give you total satisfaction ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's your job to make him interested . |
| 8 | ‘ Your unconscious tells me different . ’ |
| 9 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 10 | ‘ If it 's not unethical — and there was no one else to do it , anyway — why have Celia and your grandmother kept it secret all these years ? |
| 11 | You might be able , for example , to persuade your employer to give you constructive help by engaging an out-placement counsellor to assist you in finding a new job . |
| 12 | ‘ Did your son find it fruitless ? ’ |
| 13 | And your mother dresses you funny |
| 14 | Does your office make you sick ? |
| 15 | And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag . |
| 16 | If you give in to the fears which are projected onto the inner screen of your mind , you make your intentions to overcome them impossible and you will be weighed down by your past failures , finding you lack the courage to confront the problem or the person who in the past has won over you . |