Example sentences of "what you [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , he said well that depends on what you show me . |
| 2 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 3 | Did the things they told you about the ad or the product correspond at all to what you hoped they would get out of it ? |
| 4 | The ability to hear what you hoped you 'd hear rather than what the other person is saying . |
| 5 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 6 | He will probably get you to agree the opposite of what you thought you said , as he did with " considerable " . |
| 7 | You did n't do what you thought you were doing . |
| 8 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 9 | And the rate of change of , of , of society no the background to what we 're doing , shifts the goalposts is the fashionable term but what you thought you meant you no longer mean , and of course , if one is meticulously methodical , one adjusts the definition as the circumstances change |
| 10 | ‘ I said what you thought I said , ’ Sulien replied . |
| 11 | And I never was … what you thought I was … never ! ’ |
| 12 | If this frequency does n't suit you , now is the time to talk things through because otherwise you could end up in a longterm relationship in which sex is not what you thought it would be . |
| 13 | In the second section , although you noted some of the imagery and discussed it intelligently , you often moved too far away from the imagery itself and relied on an ‘ outside ’ view of the poem ( what you thought it must be about ) to interpret it . |
| 14 | When first started , can you can you what you what you felt about it , what you thought it was going to do ? |
| 15 | It was n't what you thought it was . |
| 16 | Do what you like you see . |
| 17 | What you like it ? |
| 18 | His attitude to Theo hardening daily , he said he knew very well that ‘ whether Father and Mother take it quietly or not will three-fourths depend on what you tell them . ’ |
| 19 | Tuesday comes and I 'm all set to head down when diaster strikes ( stupid computers they never do what you tell them to ) and the trip is cancelled . |
| 20 | If you do n't know anything about computers , just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result . |
| 21 | Other versions are that computers only do exactly what you tell them to , and that therefore computers are never creative . |
| 22 | So if somebody said to me what what were the highlights for you yesterday , Aldershot method tell them what you tell them just list them . |
| 23 | What you tell them ? |
| 24 | He 's the biggest gossip in the Club so be careful what you tell him about me . |
| 25 | He 'll be touchy feeling and he wants to complete application form , give it to him okay if he 's an original he 'll want to see conceptual presentations , he 'll want to see illustrations , he 'll want to see erm , sales aids , if he 's in audible mode he will far more readily to what you tell him as opposed to , let me show you something , okay and there 's a specific technique |
| 26 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ That 's what you tell me . |
| 27 | A meeting in which you say ‘ if what you tell me happened in the way you describe then we owe you an apology ’ would seem to offer no admission of liability or guilt in situations where legal action results . |
| 28 | ‘ I wo n't do what you tell me , MOTHERF—ER ! ! ’ |
| 29 | I do n't want you to imagine for a moment that I do n't believe every word of what you tell me . |
| 30 | He 's half-mad anyway , from what you tell me . |