Example sentences of "you [vb base] that [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say that she has a mineral lick — have you tried a plain salt lick ? |
| 2 | In the sense that er you say that you had a camera club |
| 3 | When you consider that we spend a third of our lives in bed , that hardly seems an extravagance . |
| 4 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 5 | If you know that you have a busy weekend ahead and will be out all day for two days at the end of next week , you could use this time to knit a jumper . |
| 6 | Perhaps you know that I married a man who was very cruel to me . |
| 7 | Multiply billions of tiny energy surpluses over billions of years of time and you find that you have a vast energy surplus . |
| 8 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 9 | If you feel that you want a cup of tea , or coffee because you enjoy the taste for its own sake , then go ahead and have one . |
| 10 | No matter how well you think that you know a river or loch , by the end of the day you will have acquired some piece of additional , vital information to add to your store of knowledge . |
| 11 | You mention that you need a bit more ‘ oomph ’ in your sound , but this wo n't necessarily be obtained by replacing the pickups . |