Example sentences of "you [vb base] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ and he said to Mr Flowerdew : ‘ Now you pick hold of the hair on the heel of the horse and lift the foot up . ’ |
| 2 | If you 're using a tall container make sure you pick flowers with long stems — such as daffodils — to put into them . |
| 3 | To state the dilemma baldly : if you trust teachers as professionals , you will be able to take a correspondingly relaxed view of testing and thus mitigate some of the more interventionist or authoritarian aspects of a defined central curriculum . |
| 4 | A Brighton & Hove break will hi-jack you taste buds in record time . |
| 5 | You 're n yeah but you know how you make fun of me sometimes , how you |
| 6 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 7 | Whether you make notes at a lecture , in the library or from textbooks that you are reading , they must be the finished article in its final shape , except for the colour coding indicating ranges of importance . |
| 8 | ‘ And you make money at this inn-fewer-ants ? ’ |
| 9 | Before I came here , I thought that T N T was something you make bombs with . |
| 10 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 11 | Experimentation with the points where you make contact with the string is the best way of locating each harmonic … |
| 12 | How to comment on a proposal : When you make observations on a planning application you should only comment on planning grounds . |
| 13 | Elephants have bigger brains than humans but , probably with some justice , we like to think that we are cleverer than elephants and that our brains are ‘ really ’ bigger if you make allowance for the fact that we are much smaller animals . |
| 14 | Over the piano you make love with ! |
| 15 | And tell me , do you give that little speech to all the women you make love with ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But you live with him , you make love with him — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You must paint with joy , the joy with which you make love to a woman . |
| 18 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 19 | ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked . |
| 20 | If you make love to me I 'll have something to look back on with pleasure and gratitude for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 21 | When you get to the small conglomeration of villages called , variously , Lecumberry , Men dive and Béhorléguy , you make half-left for the Col d'Aphanize and beyond it Ahusquy . |
| 22 | But , when you 're doing that you make assessment at the end of it to say what level you have , you 've got to target specifically at certain things . |
| 23 | You make decisions in an isolated , ego-gratifying manner . |
| 24 | However , do n't play around with these INI files unless you make copies of them first . |
| 25 | Leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it slows down or stops suddenly , the safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance shown below , but on the open road in good conditions leave a gap of one metre for each mile an hour of your speed or a two second time gap may be enough , they will also leave space for an overtaking vehicle pulling or wet or icy or the gap should be at least double that , drop back if you know that taking vehicle closing gap in front of you make way for ambulance , fire engines , police or van emergency vehicles when their blue lamps are flashing or their bells , two tone cones or sirens or . |
| 26 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
| 27 | Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts . |
| 28 | If you make journeys of this type regularly , then the dog will soon become used to the routine , although it is probably best not to travel with your dog on public transport if it can be avoided . |
| 29 | In Britain it seems to be a kind of tradition that if you refer to modern art at all , you make jokes about it . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'll be needing a coffin soon , Workhouse , if you make jokes like that ! |