Example sentences of "you [vb base] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you intend to buy an expensive item which you think will be cheaper than here , estimate the amount of duty you will have to pay by checking the duty tariff at your local Customs and Excise office . . |
| 2 | Included in the leaflet is guidance on where to seek advice if something is found , who to contact if you intend to develop an area containing archaeological sites and how to get involved in an excavation . |
| 3 | ‘ You expect to find an assassin masquerading as a goose ? ’ |
| 4 | I 've always said , if you want to outwit an Englishman , touch him when he does n't want to be touched . |
| 5 | If you want to field an Empire army , I believe the first question you should ask yourself is what sort of player you are . |
| 6 | If you want to decorate an egg to keep , you must first take out its inside or it will go bad . |
| 7 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 8 | I was now able to test responses to questions such as ‘ Why is it that if you want to create an ideal family as the basis of society , Unification husbands are often expected to leave their wives , and mothers are asked to leave their children while they are sent to work on a mission , possibly thousands of miles away ? ’ |
| 9 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 10 | If you want to arrange an installation , or service repair , you can contact us 24 hours a day , 365 days a year . |
| 11 | As one manager expressed it : " If you want to move an elephant you have to be pretty rude about it . " |
| 12 | The most likely reason for fitting a new copper hot water cylinder is that you want to replace an existing galvanised hot water tank . |
| 13 | For example , if no one has yet discovered the principle of the lens , it is difficult to invent the telescope ; if you want to erect an astronomical observatory , therefore , you have to do your best with the current technology — in other words , build Stonehenge or some similar megalithic monument . |
| 14 | If you want to call an issue but I was on about setting up these committees to assess the standard of care . |
| 15 | If you want to see an automated process , come over here . ’ |
| 16 | I I 'm er quoting a hypothetical situation here that we have entered production with er production line for drop tanks maybe producing two , three thousand tanks against a projected usage for the next ten years and sometime during that period we decide you want to order an additional thousand tanks two thousand tanks then you could adjust the rate at which the deliveries occur , you could adjust the the the total quantity and with about a years notice industry can get in the materials and produce the goods for you . |
| 17 | Long and narrow shaped pictures can be very useful if you want to fill an awkward space in your home , such as the area between two doors or in a small alcove . |
| 18 | If you want to employ an attractive secretary how attractive does she have to be ? |
| 19 | If you want to thrill an audience , taking risks is essential . |
| 20 | Well not unless you want to pay an arm and a leg for them no . |
| 21 | I do n't know , I felt that was , I mean , erm it 's so easy to be snobbish , but if the problems of experimentation that comes out of accident because you want to achieve an accident and you want to achieve the fall of things on the page , and the accident that occurs because , as you say , nobody 's ever told you that you 're not supposed to do that , so the accident is n't a case of reacting against a rule to test it , to see whether it would stand up to being broken , the one that 's just happened I think , I |
| 22 | Supposing the room in which you want to have an open fire does not have a chimney or a flue of any kind . |
| 23 | If you want to add an interpretation , explain later that from your experience this is what you think it means . |
| 24 | If you want to keep an eye on your sodium intake , refer to the nutritional information which accompanies some of the recipes in BBC Good Food . |
| 25 | ‘ No , nothing of importance , except I think you want to keep an eye on Billy the welder . |
| 26 | You want to keep an eye on her . |
| 27 | It 's almost like community care for the prisons , you want to keep an eye in this one ? |
| 28 | You know , people you know you 're going to wind up in court with , and you need to , you want to keep an a , you know , an accurate log of every communication you , you get from these people . |
| 29 | I do n't care whether you want to play an instrument or not |
| 30 | If you want to build an hotel in an attractive location how attractive does it have to be ? |