Example sentences of "you [be] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are allowing yourself a daily ration of alcohol , allow these calories in addition to a minimum calories ' worth of food and milk from the F-Plan menus . |
| 2 | You are to keep it a secret , Theodosia . |
| 3 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 4 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 5 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 6 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 7 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 8 | You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes . |
| 9 | You are giving me a look ai n't you babe ? |
| 10 | ‘ You are making me a wreck . ’ |
| 11 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 12 | You are doing yourself a lot of harm by keeping me here like this interrogating me about matters which are protected by the official secrets legislation . ’ |
| 13 | Then Zambia said , ‘ Well , you 're leaving it a little late to join in are n't you honey ? ’ |
| 14 | More than likely you will notice you 're as competent as the angler you 're watching and return with restored confidence to your swim , which , in the meantime rested , suddenly bursts alive and the dace start feeding so well you 're hooking one a chuck . |
| 15 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 16 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 17 | You know you 're getting me a name for myself and there might be somebody listening you never know . |
| 18 | ‘ Mister , you 're givin' me a hard time , you are , and just when I 'm thinking I 've met a real gent for a change . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're telling me a woman like you actually obeys that stuff ? ’ |
| 20 | Oh well now you 're asking me a tricky one . |
| 21 | You 're asking me a question ? |
| 22 | The could be if you pop yourself there , he sits there and she sits there , you 're asking him a question , he 's not sure , he looks at her , so if you look you ca n't see what you 're doing , you want to be able to maintain eye contact with them both , yeah , one of the effective ways , well they 're going to be aware of the layout of the living room , this is their , this is their stage . |
| 23 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 24 | You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher . |
| 25 | And if you just put it in a slightly more formal way on radio , that 's what you 're doing is , you 're not shifting the buck , you 're answering the question , you 're just , you 're giving yourself a bit of leeway . |
| 26 | You 're giving them a a load of old flannel and trying to trying to trying to persuade them that something 's true you 're deceiving them . |
| 27 | Well I keep telling you to move that away from the house I said talking about your rising crime , you 're giving them a ladder to use as well ! |
| 28 | You come around here every week with whatever chick you fell into the sack with the night before and you 're giving me a morality lecture ! |
| 29 | I said , ‘ You 're giving me a headache ! ’ |
| 30 | And again analyse : ‘ You 're giving me a lot of advice here from your viewpoint — I need to plot my own course . ’ |