Example sentences of "you [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
| 2 | ‘ Can you comment on the weapon yet ? ’ |
| 3 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 4 | So why does such a great amount of personnel change — can you explain about the points system here . |
| 5 | So did you stay to the end of the er the disco ? |
| 6 | Do you stay with the horses all the while u in the flight ? |
| 7 | Do you stay with the horse all the while ? |
| 8 | Do you stay with the baby at all times when he or she is in the bath ? |
| 9 | Did you stay on the box ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , Geoffrey , why did you stay in the Tower ? ’ |
| 11 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 12 | Now , what do you make of the pencil entries at the start of the new year ? ’ |
| 13 | Pigs had piglets , Trent thought and called up , ‘ What do you make of the weather ? ’ |
| 14 | What sort of estimate did you make of the time of death ? " |
| 15 | Well if this is the case then you do n't see that any recommendations in Goodey would stop that kind of thing happening and if you do n't see that , what recommendations would you make to the Committee that Goodey should put any report that would stop that kind of thing happening . |
| 16 | ‘ What sort of threats did you make during the row ? ’ |
| 17 | What do you want in the kitchen ? |
| 18 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 19 | What do you want from the Mothers in Employment Group ? ? ? |
| 20 | What do you want from the shop ? |
| 21 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 22 | What do you think about the government ? |
| 23 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 24 | When this person makes a short , stilted contribution encourage the speaker through obviously listening and asking them to continue : ‘ What else do you think about the proposal ? ’ or ‘ Can 1 ask Bill to say some more about his department ? ’ |
| 25 | Right , so yo , you watched er , Dr. Marius Bernard , erm , the South African , what did you think about the message that came across in the film ? |
| 26 | Now er it was n't that night I said it , it was afterwards so I said what did you think about the concert then ? |
| 27 | ‘ I never know what to make of them , but they certainly make you think about the future of the human race . ’ |
| 28 | Do you think do you think about the trees the trees should stay there or what ? |
| 29 | ‘ The paper — what do you think about the paper ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 30 | What do you think about the H-bomb ? |