Example sentences of "you [vb base] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You want it the hard way ? |
2 | Why you send us the fucking letter saying it 'll be there . |
3 | The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions . |
4 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
5 | If you give me the necessary details , I 'll fill in the order-form . ’ |
6 | Oh shut up woman , shut up , you give me the bloody screaming abdabs , it 's my money I threw away . |
7 | " Strictly speaking , you 're going to be dead very soon unless you give me the right instructions . " |
8 | Yeah I mean if you 're looking at quantitative things it 's really you know how much actual How much variation happens whereas qualitative is you know what the actual variations |
9 | you know what the actual quality of the variations are . |
10 | You know what the Irish are like , Schellenberg ? |
11 | He was captured , and you know what the French do . |
12 | since you know what the grim reaper does when he or she calls upon you . |
13 | When planting new trees in your garden , make sure that you know what the mature heights are likely to be . |
14 | You know you the hard work . |
15 | Well I know that my colleague Joanna Innes wants to comment on this , but if I could answer that immediately , I think there is a question about how you define what the major problem is . |
16 | You try it the other way round . |
17 | you turn it the other way round , everybody knows that . |
18 | and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one |
19 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
20 | If you think what the Imperial in Torquay is anyway . |
21 | ‘ You think what the French call a coup de foudre is fun ? ’ he protested hoarsely , a hint of rueful humour warming his eyes . |
22 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |
23 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
24 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
25 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
26 | If you are left-handed of course , you do it the other way round . |
27 | and er , if you do it the other way |
28 | Okay they 're the straightforward ones if you do it the other way round if you differentiate cos you 'll get minus sine . |
29 | Excellent voice I mean worth an A Bill , brilliant if you do that , but I mean I 'm not , I know speaking to sort of Charles and Tom and Alan , they say that sort of recommendation referrals in Norwich are very difficult but I think if you do it the right way |
30 | I am doubtful about the validity of ‘ torturing the evidence ’ : surely , if you torture someone the usual result is that he will speak the truth . |