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 | What are you due left to take ? |
| 7 | I ask you dear friends to pray for me in this area for guidance , finance and I will seek his will in everything . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What the hell do you bloody chaps want ? ’ he roared . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’ |
| 12 | I ask you if you like me and you tell me you ‘ fancy ’ me — is n't that the word you British use to describe a lustful attraction ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How d' you French barmen do it ? |
| 14 | You hired detectives to find me ? |
| 15 | ‘ Never mind what I said , I do n't say things the way you ordinary people do , Marcus and I understand each other , we are folk of the frontier . ’ |
| 16 | The eight ships you left waiting had already moved across to intercept them . ’ |
| 17 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 18 | A THERMOSTAT for you hot-water cylinder costs as little as £5 , but can save you up to £15 a year . |
| 19 | So , if you want to change your car before you existing loan has been fully repaid , you can . |
| 20 | We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted ! |
| 21 | We shall give you reasonable time to prepare and present repayment proposals and will always carefully consider such proposals as well as other relevant factors known to us ( e.g. your health and family situation ) . |
| 22 | You sure Amanda knows what she 's doing |
| 23 | ‘ Are you sure mum did n't ask after me ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Are you sure Taczek does n't want you dead as well ? ’ |
| 25 | For example , the Oxford Book of Death will give you short texts relating to death , and selections from longer texts you might want to read all the way through if you are interested in the topic . |
| 26 | I said , ‘ You small-minded people make me fucking sick . |
| 27 | You must get by the wind and take with you scented cakes made as follows : half lb of oat flower mixed with Treacle and slack baked . |
| 28 | I just drew those on purpose because you small children do n't understand . |
| 29 | I hope you Norwegian people realize this is complete . |
| 30 | Lot eighteen is the H M V Model thirteen there it is , thank you various accessories to go with it , Lot eighteen hundred pounds for it , one hundred anywhere ? |