Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
2 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
3 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
4 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
5 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
6 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
7 | If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves . |
8 | If , having read this , you pick up a magazine targeted at younger teenagers — for example , one of the pop music or video games magazines — the layout is so ‘ reader-unfriendly ’ that it seems clear that the criteria for ‘ correctness ’ in a layout need , at least , some re-evaluation for this target audience . |
9 | I do n't trust you and I shall be breathing down your neck next time you pick up a phone . ’ |
10 | O K , you pick up a bonus for that , anybody else on the team come up with something positive about unit linking that 'll make me say , yes , I like this one ? |
11 | Erm and and I mean the actual bearing when you you pick up a a a a little miniature bearing and and you can spin it on your finger and |
12 | the bank seems to pay the a cripplingly low salary demand that everybody dresses in in Saville Row , but you could buy a house on a something like two and half percent mortgage well it 's not like that now , but it 's still still get a preferential mortgage and this banking person man was looking around only three or four weeks ago , but you see a lot depends on your luck as to whether you pick up a a very good buyer . |
13 | So what you 're saying is then , you like the idea of every time you pick up a phone you make , you earn a pound . |
14 | What tends to happen is you pick up a large mutation and then you modify it further , further modifying selection . |
15 | I mentioned earlier as an illustration , when you pick up a , a magazine , magazine or a newspaper or a local magazine or whatever , you are conscious of the hook . |
16 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
17 | When you pick up the phone , say ‘ Good morning afternoon ’ and announce the name of the company or department . |
18 | You pick up the plate , touch your nose and then you touch the bottom of the plate and then stroke your cheek and nose . |
19 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
20 | The most important pre-flight check is to ensure that you pick up the handles so that right and left align with the correct bridles . |
21 | The best thing is — nothing can beat this — when you pick up the phone and tell them who you are , the repair man will always come round . |
22 | If you want to leave a copy of the icon in the original group as well , just use Ctrl=click when you pick up the icon . |
23 | If you pick up the phone and ring to get seats here you will very often find that you ca n't get through . |
24 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
25 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
26 | So you pick up the pieces and start turning up a little here and a little — but you get the idea . |
27 | Now i it 's the sort of thing that you y you read about , you pick up the the paper , you put n news on , and Nasty accident on the M Eight or M Six , whatever the case may be , and a lot of vehicles are involved . |
28 | Chastened , you pick up the bicycle and shuffle indoors , convinced you have ruined everything for good . |
29 | You pick up the cake of soap and leave as quietly as you entered . ’ |
30 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |