Example sentences of "what you [vb base] a " in BNC.

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1 I said , what you mean a Y T S ?
2 What you mean a big number ?
3 ‘ Harriet , if I got what you get a year , I 'd invest it to … support the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or something .
4 What you get a a navvies steak on , you
5 What you get a book of tokens or something ?
6 what you make an
7 As far as Barney 's concerned , it 's not what you take a shot with but how you take it .
8 This , I felt , shrinking with embarrassment , was taking the idea that you are what you eat a sight too literally , and ever since I have distanced myself slightly from that early guide to greens .
9 How about paying me what you think a 200,000 footballer is worth ? ’
10 Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer .
11 But what you do a lot I think is you know how to do quite a few things but you 're concentrating I mean here you 're thinking , Ah all I 'm doing now is where w w get the commas in the right place .
12 Right , things we 'd like to see in psychology Is there any I mean any the trouble is you do n't know what 's on the menu so it 's hard to but I mean what sort what sort of things would you like to have seen from pr what you have a ?
13 You may want to go back to your original data and indicate what you want a certain sound to be ow that you have checked it , and from now on you would use correct and consistent symbolisation .
14 And we want to know about what you want a new ad .
15 What you want a bed ? then .
16 What you want a Tigger one ?
17 You know what you want a do , get some bags and bag that stuff up and sell that on the side of the road fifty p a bag .
18 And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it !
19 It is still what you call a long shot ? ’
20 That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season .
21 Languages generally have developed systems of address — what you call a person when you talk to them face to face — which reflect the salient social distinctions of the culture ( kin versus nonkin , intimate versus nonintimate , higher/lower status , to mention some very common ones ) .
22 What you call a free soul , that 's me ; free as the wind . ’
23 It 's not what you call a rational act .
24 I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before .
25 You 'd be , oh perhaps twenty or thirty of us , in these fields and you used to do so A length , what you call a length .
26 They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days .
27 Er you get what what you call a small blues during the week , but Friday , Saturday , Sunday and Monday , you can expect er large blues .
28 And Alina said , ‘ Is that what you call a welcome ? ’
29 One of the most pedantic of the sub-editors was saying : ‘ You 're all looking for somebody with what you call a reason , but his thinking will be at variance with yours . ’
30 There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker .
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