Example sentences of "you [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Alexander Technique , by giving a means to release the excessive build-up of tension , helps you to perform much nearer to your maximum ability with the minimum amount of effort . |
| 2 | I recommend you pick reasonably dry conditions for scrambling up these cloughs , unless you have a penchant for floundering through dark , peat-stained raging torrents or swimming up thundering waterfalls . |
| 3 | Erm , what I 'm aiming to do is to show you as many different techniques as I know , er , and if you pick up two or three of them that 's absolutely terrific . |
| 4 | But the electric eel has another set of batteries that produce not steady low-voltage diction-finding transmissions but sudden massive shocks so strong that if you pick up such a fish without the insulation of rubber gloves and boots , it can throw you flat on your back . |
| 5 | If you stand here it might look beautiful , but if you pick up each one individually you 'll see weeds germinating , brittle bits and you could pick up a disease in the early stages which you just would n't see otherwise . |
| 6 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 7 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 8 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 9 | well I mean I 'm only trying to get you to pick to pick it up one wee thing from every time I said , do have a chat with you , that 's what we always say , I 'm not expecting you to pick up anything else I 've said to you tonight cos I 'm only talking to you in general terms , but if you pick up one wee thing , right , story close |
| 10 | What I would suggest is that you pick up 1,000 shares now at … |
| 11 | So you pick up these things . |
| 12 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 13 | Along life 's way you pick up little techniques that help you control your behaviour , get your own way , become strong-willed . |
| 14 | I suggest next time you pick up broken glass you try not to be so careless . |
| 15 | Here you pick up 2 to 3 centimetres of flesh on the thigh and roll it between your fingers and thumb ( Fig 23 ) . |
| 16 | And , and probably you pick up some of the language used to describe this , you know . |
| 17 | You can go and make , you , pick out , you 're like Lee you pick out these hardest things . |
| 18 | Short breaks in concentration help you to sustain much longer conversations . |
| 19 | ‘ Does the rest of you taste as sweet , I wonder ? |
| 20 | your movements coming outwards you stretch the skin and you make even more lines come around that area . |
| 21 | Use water with the chill taken off if possible : if you make up two or three buckets of really hot water before you start you can mix these with the cold . |
| 22 | Clearly , before you make too many assumptions about the strength of your position in law , it is vital to check the precise rules that apply to you . |
| 23 | ‘ You make too many assumptions about me . ’ |
| 24 | Y'know if you wan na have a go , you wan na say something , then you make quite subtle gestures to catch the eye of somebody and so on . |
| 25 | The oldest of the fishermen , grey of head and wearing his false teeth on a string round his neck , spat in the sand and said , ‘ Trent , boy , you take them men , you make damn sure them pay cash money . ’ |
| 26 | If you make only one claim in any period of insurance any no claim bonus which you have earned will be reduced at your next renewal , as follows : |
| 27 | ‘ You 're just making that up , the way you make so much up . |
| 28 | ‘ Presumably you checked out this Abdullah Hayira character before you did business with him ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There should be some form of grading , like a golfing handicap , allowing you to drive only smaller cars at the lowest level . |
| 30 | ‘ What am I that you hate so much ? ’ |