Example sentences of "you [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder they 're touchy when you pick on them the way you do . ’ |
| 2 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 3 | And of course , the more you worry about it the more it starts er to come out . |
| 4 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 5 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 6 | Before your children come to Heriot 's we would like you to discuss with them the aims of this School and the values on which we lay emphasis . |
| 7 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 8 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , I , but I did n't realize you know with him the old man , the toughy , yeah |
| 10 | The approach work is always quite nasty , but once you get into it the experience is very pleasurable . |
| 11 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 12 | When you talk to me the way you do ? |
| 13 | Erades ( 1950 : 123 ) , for example , observes that while the sentence with the bare infinitive " can only mean one thing , viz. Will you share with me the work of addressing them ? " , that with the to infinitive allows the interpretation that " the help may be afforded by some other means , such as relieving the speaker of other duties or tasks " . |
| 14 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 15 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 16 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 17 | Anna 's answer was , If you go to him the instant you are free , what will the world say ? |
| 18 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 19 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 20 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 21 | The you think about it the more ridiculous the situation seems . |
| 22 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 23 | Of course , if you think about it the consequences of that is these guys die and when they die , those wives that they married as young girls are now middle-aged women or possibly younger , anyway past their youth , but th th they , they may not be . |
| 24 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 25 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 26 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 27 | but when you think of it the cost of the superintendent doing display work is enormous is n't it |
| 28 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 29 | you said to him the other night . |
| 30 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |