Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] your [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is demonstrated by such statements as : ‘ you pays your money and you takes your pick ’ . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 3 | When it comes to the state of mental health services , you ‘ pays your money and you takes your choice ’ . |
| 4 | These are these wonderful arguments where you pays your money and you takes your choice . |
| 5 | And actually they 've got two miniature scores in the library , one of which said it was in E flat , and the other one said it was in C minor , so you pays your money and you takes your choice , erm |
| 6 | Then you have to go and have a bath and see the nurse , and she checks your hair and they check you for VD . |
| 7 | Oh Taurus Since you may not be capable capable , qualified or experienced enough to deal with certain matters , even partners , family matters or legal advices to act on your behalf , and there lies your problem , because some of your plans maybe go up in smoke unless you get actively involved , so legal matters needs to be |
| 8 | Your Dad 's a stupid bastard and he sucks your Mum every night |
| 9 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 10 | But I called a pal of mine in St Helier who works on the local rag and he reckons your man 's at home . ’ |
| 11 | once you get a bad habit and it slows your writing down as well |
| 12 | So basically it 's like a little computer there and it reads your handwriting basically on your little electropad there . |
| 13 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 14 | But it 's nice having an audience and it gets your adrenalin going as well |
| 15 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 16 | And it limits your conversation a bit . |
| 17 | The program tells you to turn off your PC , and it encrypts your directory , hiding all the files on your hard disc except one , called Cyborg.Doc . |
| 18 | and it melts your engine block |
| 19 | No oh dear Neil said yesterday he was running he was running in thr in through the hall way with karate suit or something he was muttering to himself and he said smoking a healthy , dirty habit , it 's expensive and it shortens your life I love it ! |
| 20 | If you expect something and it surpasses your expectation , then you are thrilled . |
| 21 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 22 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 23 | It has called for a global convention outlawing all toxic waste trade schemes — and it needs your support . |
| 24 | I think of lipstick samples at Bullocks department store , the way you rub the lipstick from your lips and it stains your hand the whole day through . |
| 25 | People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material . |
| 26 | and it heats your oven up , it 's got all temperature thing on it a hot , hot plate , she had one before |
| 27 | You know when we go to church and you have a microphone on , and it makes your voice go round all the church ? |
| 28 | It enables you to get straight into analysis and debate , leaving basic description to passages of supporting illustration ; and it emphasises your point of view or commentary rather than mere repetition of materials possibly already available to your reader in their original form . |
| 29 | It 's intriguingly titled ‘ The Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ and it blows your head off . |
| 30 | Okay and what does your wife , tt your wife , your husband do ? |