Example sentences of "you [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs ' squashy traces , Grounds of rough fallows with thistle and weed , Flats and low vallies of kingcups and daisies , Sweetest of subjects are ye for my reed : Ye commons left free in the rude rags of nature , Ye brown heaths beclothed in furze as ye be , My wild eye in rapture adores every feature , Ye are dear as this heart in my bosom to me . |
| 2 | The former was first cousin to Sir Daniel Fleming 's wife , and in a letter of 10th August 1691 he proposed to lease " ye Copper Workes att Coniston , or elsewhere in yr libertyes . " |
| 3 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 4 | The House Manager will be happy to discuss with you specific arrangements to meet your social and budgetary requirements : Cheese and Wine or Tea Parties , Lunches , Discos and Buffets . |
| 5 | If you need to satisfy you annalistic impulses to close the bin , you know to , to fondle the rings , er , you can close it by pushing the rings together , that 's actually a more efficient way of doing it than the triggers , but please always open with the triggers . |
| 6 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 7 | It 's also double-bound in white plastic , which should tell you that Fender have simplified production by using the exact same bodies you 'd find on the ‘ 62 rosewood-neck reissues . |
| 8 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 9 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 10 | But there was no applause when he added : ‘ I have to tell you that credit controls simply would n't work . ’ |
| 11 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I might tell you that Uncle follows a pattern that was forced upon him . |
| 13 | On particularly clear days ( the locals will tell you that midwinter provides the best of them ) the view reaches as far as the Vosges in France and Switzerland 's Jura . |
| 14 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 15 | Mind you that wind keeps you awake though does n't it ? |
| 16 | I gave you that thing to put your pens on ! |
| 17 | We remind you that failure to supply a written notice immediately is an offence . |
| 18 | Experiment with the colour — I will tell you that white gives extra body to your colour , extra covering power . |
| 19 | You know , give us a chance to get into the play and get comfortable on our feet and we 'll have a go , well , Johnson does n't give you that option does he ? |
| 20 | Go on you that joke did n't ya ? |
| 21 | What are you due left to take ? |
| 22 | I ask you dear friends to pray for me in this area for guidance , finance and I will seek his will in everything . ’ |
| 23 | The ORIGINAL DRAWING section is similar in principle to a charting device in that it allows you total freedom to create a diagram of any shape that you want and to knit that shape using the yarn , stitch pattern and tension of your choice . |
| 24 | I do , however , feel that any therapist is justified in asking you each time to pay in advance for your next visit ( which would result in no payment on the day of the final consultation ) . |
| 25 | ‘ What the hell do you bloody chaps want ? ’ he roared . |
| 26 | Right tailgating , saying come on you old bastard get out the way , you 're only doing a hundred and ten , what 's the matter with you . |
| 27 | WE 'RE giving you another chance to sample life at the top with Vernons Pools — an extra route to enter our five free contests themed on what it would be like to win the pools . |
| 28 | And we 'll be giving you another chance to hear all those questions at the end of our programme on Friday . |
| 29 | ‘ Are you another phantom sent to plague me ? |
| 30 | Later we shall send you another form to sign , so we can claim the tax . |