Example sentences of "you [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else .
2 It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim .
3 On awakening it will rise from five to ten beats a minute , and during the day it will rise gradually and may be up to ten beats higher at bedtime than it was when you got up in the morning .
4 You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that .
5 You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning .
6 From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car .
7 When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out .
8 I cut mine with a special retractable knife , but do be careful how you cut , so that the knife does not slip towards you and you land up in the Accident Department .
9 I 'm just too disheartened to intellectualise about the fascists you reported on in the Love Sees No Colour issue ( FACE 44 ) .
10 When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea .
11 Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes .
12 ‘ I keep asking you to come out in the boat , you say you have to work .
13 Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
14 You walk around in a skirt and wear a bra , how was I to know ? ’
15 It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them .
16 You came back in a dream .
17 Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat .
18 After , after er you break up in the summer ?
19 If you break down in the tunnel and you require assistance , the fireman takes from the driver a Wrong Line Order , colour green , and walks to the signal box , putting down three detonators as a guide when he pilots the Break Down on the wrong line to the train .
20 ‘ If you look over in the corner , there 's a little ante-room with a single bed — intended , so I believe , to accommodate a child . ’
21 When the night time comes up comes along you look up in the sky and say where 's the moon gone .
22 Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable .
23 ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’
24 And that 's you waking up in the morning .
25 It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom .
26 Anything goes wrong , they 'll just leave you face down in the shit . ’
27 ‘ Where did you decide on in the end ?
28 You know up in the forest you sometimes see those things for beating out fires ? ’
29 Dave these computer been you know up in the air for about six months and Dave said you 've got ta get it repaired he said , cos you know y he 's got ta print out on it and everything
30 As you wake up in the morning , you may hear yourself say , ‘ If you go back to sleep , you wo n't have time to have breakfast .
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