Example sentences of "you be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been to put a bet on ? |
| 2 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 3 | ‘ Have you been taking a medical history , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ |
| 4 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 5 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 6 | But the bold announcement " I think that … " seems to imply that you are undergoing a temporary mental disorder and very shortly you will revert to normal . |
| 7 | If you are teaching a heterogeneous mob of children in an afternoon session with little or no equipment , the advice given is clearly not for you : you are a ‘ sub-teacher ’ , teaching a ‘ sub-class ’ , The official curriculum plan washes its hands of you . |
| 8 | It 's quite legal , but not knowing exactly where you are sending a pup is a disgrace . |
| 9 | If you are sending a personal letter to a person at their place of employment and you wish that person only to open it , the envelope and letter should be marked PERSONAL . |
| 10 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 11 | Even if you are replacing a basin with another in the same position , it is unlikely that you will be able to use the existing tap connectors . |
| 12 | But , unless you are considering a particularly large donation , it is unlikely that you would need to include any complicated form of wording . |
| 13 | These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months . |
| 14 | This is hard enough when you are considering a normal decorating job , but when it comes to choosing paint for a special job , then the task can be very complex . |
| 15 | If you are considering a new boat or retrofit rig you 'll want to know more , just write , phone or fax for our product literature , to arrange a meeting or to organise a tender . |
| 16 | If you are considering a short or long break on an English holiday park then you need look no further than the ‘ Freedom ’ Holiday Parks brochure published by the Caravan Holiday Home Campaign . |
| 17 | And the appropriate way in which this matter should be considered is through the local plan when you are considering a much er more limited range of possible sites for the new settlement . |
| 18 | If you are organising a series of local radio interviews , a simple request to each station for a recording of the broadcast will usually result in the interviewee being handed the recording at the end of the interview , but you must provide the tape . |
| 19 | ‘ You are to devise a means to destroy the eight twelves , ’ said Fakrid . |
| 20 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 21 | Leave some of the batter off the fish as well ; • If you are eating a pizza or pie do not feel duty-bound to finish off the whole thing . |
| 22 | If it is more convenient to prepare , for instance , Day 5 's recipes on Day 3 , then do so , as long as within the week you are eating a balance of meat , fish , vegetables and fruit . |
| 23 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 24 | When you are eating a fibre-rich diet there are restraining limits on how many calories you can actually manage to consume in a day — even if you are n't trying to shed weight . |
| 25 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 26 | Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children . |
| 27 | For example , imagine that you have a subordinate who persists in going home early each Friday when you are holding a routine staff meeting . |
| 28 | If you are holding a loop of line from the reel , and you feel a bite , you can feed this loop to the fish until you know it is time to strike . |
| 29 | If you are holding a New Year highland fling , who better to supply Scottish recipes than Sue Lawrence , the 1991 MasterChef winner who is from north of the border . |
| 30 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |