Example sentences of "you [modal v] be [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be maintaining your profits more or less in line with inflation , and hence giving a spurious impression of growth . |
| 2 | If you 're pregnant and sporty , you may be wondering what exercise you can do safely . |
| 3 | That said , you may be wondering what sort of effect this has on the Polo 's performance . |
| 4 | If you are unnecessarily intransigent , you may be jeopardising your career . |
| 5 | You may be turning your attention to job hunting and all that entails , and wondering how you are going to pay your way until you start earning . |
| 6 | Remember that landlords and landladies are less tolerant of rent arrears than college authorities and you may be putting your tenancy at risk if you fall behind with the rent . |
| 7 | You may be doing your readers a favour but you will never be invited on a freebie again . |
| 8 | You may be improving your productivity every year . |
| 9 | Still , at this very moment ( I have belatedly realised ) you must be enjoying your cruise . |
| 10 | And if anybody says you should be calling him Uncle Adam you can say no I do n't need to because he told me I did n't alright ? |
| 11 | ‘ You should be wanting your assailant brought to justice . ’ |
| 12 | Well I think you should be trying your violin for the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're twenty-seven , you 're beautiful — oh , yes you are — ’ she 'd dismissed Shannon 's laughing denial with the airy wave of a hand — and you should be sharing your life with some gorgeous hunk by now , not returning night after night to a cold and empty flat . ’ |
| 14 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 15 | There 's only one issue to which you should be giving your time and energy and that has the potential to give you back far more than you could ever lose . |
| 16 | You should be listening carefully to what your body is telling you and you should be judging your pace and duration so that you finish tired and refreshed , not exhausted . |
| 17 | But I would have said that something like cutting meat , if you 've got butchers around , it 's not something that you would be , you should be spending your time doing . |
| 18 | I knew it would keep you out of the way at a time when you might be spreading your theory about the Durances . ’ |
| 19 | It caused Aggie to say brightly , ‘ Well , I think you 'll still be lucky , because you might be seeing your ma later today . ’ |
| 20 | Next thing I know you 'll be telling me people do n't fart . |
| 21 | that fill the movie with music and everyone 's heart of joy , with the contagious hit tunes Whistle While you Work , Hi Ho and Some Day My Prince Will Come , you 'll be tapping your toes and singing along in no time , let the story telling magic of Walt Disney capture your heart |
| 22 | " I 'm afraid you 'll be wasting your time with me . |
| 23 | ‘ Go ahead ; you 'll be wasting your time , of course . ’ |
| 24 | I tell you what , you know , at my age I bet you , I think you 'll be wasting your time . |
| 25 | You 'll be catching your death of cold out here in the hall wearing nothing but that little scrap of lace . |
| 26 | He says to me he says to me he 's , I 've been two or three time while he been int garden he says every time you come in here you lock your car , he says why you 're only int garden , I says well I 've lived round here for a lot of years , ha , I says and when you 've lived here long enough I says you 'll be locking your car every time you get it out . |
| 27 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 28 | ‘ Watch it , Andy , or you 'll be spoiling your suit . ’ |
| 29 | Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’ |
| 30 | You 'll be wanting your breakfast and here I am , standing here as if eggs cooked themselves . |