Example sentences of "[subord] you [vb mod] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or a hidden rose-scented bower where you can while away an hour or two in peace and seclusion . |
| 2 | I use that qualifying phrase ‘ on the whole ’ because there are some foods which allow you to get away with it , some meals in restaurants where you can and indeed have to get away with it , and some people who can get away with it . |
| 3 | Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre . |
| 4 | While one can not assert unequivocally that determination will win , in the balance of life you can alter direction more easily on the move than you can if you are static , and if you have set the direction in this way it will almost alter itself . |
| 5 | I suppose one of the things about Neighbourhood Watch , if , if it worked properly , is that you , there 's a group of you with a common interest , and you could deal with a situation like that a bit better than you could if you were on your own . |
| 6 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't last all that long , so you might as well milk the business while you can . |
| 8 | You can do things to limit its effects , but ultimately you ca n't stop it so you might as well not worry about it too much . |
| 9 | ‘ She wo n't be the last , so you might as well get used to it , ’ Albert said — rather cruelly , it seemed . |
| 10 | No one would be more grateful than I if I could stop looking at every penny , but you wo n't catch Amsterdam so you might as well stop trying . |
| 11 | It 's going to happen , so you might as well tell them . |
| 12 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're both staying here , so you might as well get used to that idea . ’ |
| 14 | My head 's buzzing with it so you might as well share my tinnitus . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 've got what you wanted , so you might as well leave . ’ |
| 17 | However , our current D-G 's stopped all that , so you might as well use it before the date-stamp runs out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So you might as well go . ’ |
| 19 | One response to this objection , though , is that sooner or later you have to decide what someone means and how it is relevant to you ; so you might as well take that decision consciously , while you have the book or article in front of you to check . |
| 20 | I keep a supply of batteries to save the blasted generator , so you might as well make use of them . ’ |
| 21 | Ashington 's not in the bathroom , come on , downstairs please , Bryony while we 're up here lets you go to the loo , you might as well , look when your upstairs already , you said you needed a wee so you might as well go now while we 're upstairs |
| 22 | And also can you put Rebecca 's tracksuit on cos she 's got quite a grubby frock on , so you might as well put her jogsuit on as well . |
| 23 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 24 | they used to be cheap , there was a lot of one pound seventy , they 're only a little slab , drive me boring doing the little ones , so you might as well get two of the big ones once you 've done |
| 25 | dried on , so you might as well |
| 26 | in this private in this country does n't mean that you 've got to pay for it , it does mean that you 've got to pay for yourself , but its not like obligatory , so you might as well get the money you can , if you that , at that , at that standard are n't , had n't you really ? , if you can get that money , you 'd be thick not to go for it |
| 27 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 28 | er there so you may or may not be familiar with those of course er with your er connection with John . |
| 29 | Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it . |
| 30 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |