Example sentences of "you [vb base] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , every time the telephone or doorbell rings , pause for two seconds before answering ( you may find this simple exercise harder than it might seem ! ) ; or , if you find yourself in a heated discussion or argument , count from ten to one before responding . |
| 32 | When they know you , in a personal capacity , you have credibility when you contact them in a political role . |
| 33 | You use them in a Spanish drink called horchata , which is made as follows : |
| 34 | Just load it , it 's like , it 's like , you use it like a normal tape recorder , you just use it like a tape recorder |
| 35 | It 's easier to get your case accepted if you offer it as a collective decision : ‘ Something we could consider is … |
| 36 | you leave them as a full |
| 37 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 38 | ‘ If you leave it in a dark place and keep it wet it 's bound to grow big . |
| 39 | If you employ anyone in a full , part-time , or even casual basis , you are legally obliged to have Employers Liability Insurance . |
| 40 | ‘ You know , Schatzie , the more I look at you , the more you remind me of a certain Titian . |
| 41 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 42 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 43 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 44 | Well you you do it to a certain extent you 've got descriptions |
| 45 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 46 | Now if you want to do this in a proper way , then you do it in a proper way . |
| 47 | For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way . |
| 48 | Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches . |
| 49 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 50 | You hurt yourself on a big stick ? |
| 51 | And then show how you represent it as a neural network and the various flavours of it . |
| 52 | The mountain of studies that must be mastered before that distant date assumes daunting proportions and you see nothing but a losing battle against time . |
| 53 | You do , they gr they you see them in a different light . |
| 54 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 55 | ‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light . |
| 56 | You see it as a bogus science ? |
| 57 | One of the better ones at the moment are the with profits bonds , where you 're guaranteed a re returns , rather like an endowment , if you buy it as a single premium again . |
| 58 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |