Example sentences of "you [be] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been to put a bet on ? |
| 2 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 3 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's quite legal , but not knowing exactly where you are sending a pup is a disgrace . |
| 5 | Even if you are replacing a basin with another in the same position , it is unlikely that you will be able to use the existing tap connectors . |
| 6 | If you are organising a series of local radio interviews , a simple request to each station for a recording of the broadcast will usually result in the interviewee being handed the recording at the end of the interview , but you must provide the tape . |
| 7 | ‘ You are to devise a means to destroy the eight twelves , ’ said Fakrid . |
| 8 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 9 | Leave some of the batter off the fish as well ; • If you are eating a pizza or pie do not feel duty-bound to finish off the whole thing . |
| 10 | If it is more convenient to prepare , for instance , Day 5 's recipes on Day 3 , then do so , as long as within the week you are eating a balance of meat , fish , vegetables and fruit . |
| 11 | If you are holding a loop of line from the reel , and you feel a bite , you can feed this loop to the fish until you know it is time to strike . |
| 12 | For example , imagine that you have a subordinate who persists in going home early each Friday when you are holding a routine staff meeting . |
| 13 | For example : You are firing a cannon at a unit of Goblins in front of you . |
| 14 | Our discussion of these examples suggests that you can use " the " if you have already created a situation where you are naming a group of which the " the " phrase indicates a subgroup . |
| 15 | Trim any broken or damaged roots cleanly and , if you are planting a bush , hold it up and look at it carefully . |
| 16 | If you are seeking a consultant 's advice , always check first that they belong to the appropriate governing body of their branch of medicine . |
| 17 | The message for visiting climbers is to check whether a bolt is still in place if you are repeating a route where a placement is mentioned in the description . |
| 18 | ‘ If you are publishing a yearbook , the trade , and to a large extent the public know it 's coming . |
| 19 | Imagine that you are watching a home movie of yourself as a small child of seven or eight years old . |
| 20 | Hence if , say , you are watching a flock of starlings pecking for worms on a lawn , you can talk about the centre of the flock . |
| 21 | Do you think , Sarah , this might mean you are expecting a child ? ’ |
| 22 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 23 | But if you are choosing a breed for show purposes , bear in mind that some breeds , for example Retrievers , are naturally more responsive than others . |
| 24 | As you can see , there are a lot of features to keep in mind when you are choosing a camcorder . |
| 25 | However , when you are choosing a lender for a standard variable mortgage , make sure you use the following charts , in conjunction with the details of special deals regularly featured at the back of the magazine . |
| 26 | Freud reckoned that if you are choosing a partner or a career , then you must trust your heart . |
| 27 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 28 | Yet if you are telling a story you will very likely need to have , not a hero through whose eyes all is seen , but at least one fairly central figure with whom your readers can chiefly identify . |
| 29 | When you are appointed a chairman of a nationalised industry , you are given clear objectives by your Secretary of State , and you have to see that your immediate colleagues and indeed the whole team are aware of , and are striving to achieve , these objectives . |
| 30 | Samuel Butler offers his readers a helpful hint : ‘ to know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not , you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisement of Pears soap at the end of the programme ’ . |