Example sentences of "you [verb] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you reluctant to accept help from others , because you hate feeling dependent or grateful ? |
| 2 | An Inspector from the local water company may well visit your house if you intend making extensive alterations or additions and may be able to help you by spotting any bad practice or likely contravention of the bye-laws . |
| 3 | Whether you intend starting married life in a rented flat , your own home , or in a spare room at your parents ' , good financial planning is essential . |
| 4 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 5 | As for fitzAlan … did you think killing three of my men would go unnoticed ? |
| 6 | I should like to see you win having one ticket cos you 've patronised us . |
| 7 | I do n't know why you bother doing that ! |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . |
| 9 | Do you enjoy feeling sorry for yourself ? |
| 10 | Did you enjoy doing those ? |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me , do you enjoy making such a fool of yourself ? ’ |
| 12 | Oh , to protect market share , which means that you think if you stopped advertising less people would buy it , therefore your ads are making people buy it — thank you and good night . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’ |
| 14 | If you are one of these people , I suggest that you stop reading this and move on to the next chapter . |
| 15 | I 've warned you before , Ben , either you stop keeping bad company , or … ’ |
| 16 | Alison , just see , that if you stop worrying all will be well . ’ |
| 17 | Unless you count nailing another of your lies . ’ |
| 18 | The way it was done was that if you imagine putting one card in for psychology , two cards in for research methods , one card in for psychoanalytical approaches , three cards in for memory and so on and so forth an then they were sort of drawn out and then when a topic had been picked the other cards were removed . |
| 19 | If you rate the difficulty or effort needed to achieve those objectives , it will help you to avoid choosing all the most difficult ones in the first week . |
| 20 | Do you think that there was a changeover from being practical , I mean can you remember seeing that transition from the very practical shade to the , to , to the light fitting becoming something decorative ? |
| 21 | Do you remember seeing any of the first world war soldiers about while you were working , on your travels coming home on leave or anything like that ? |
| 22 | Can you remember seeing these self-same components somewhere before ? |
| 23 | ‘ Do you remember passing this statuette ? ’ |
| 24 | that was the trouble you had with that table top , do you remember doing that polishing ? |
| 25 | Do you remember doing that ? |
| 26 | Do you remember doing this ? |
| 27 | Do you remember making all the usual excuses about being overweight ? |
| 28 | D' you remember growing some bush ones though ? |
| 29 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 30 | It is better , though , for you to restrain your natural impatience to make a start , and take time instead to read the book of instructions before you begin pressing any of the buttons . |