Example sentences of "to a [noun] [subord] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | The C can change if you copy it to another column and the C put it to the right the C changes to a D if you put a dollar in front of them both then neither can change . |
| 2 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |
| 3 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 4 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 5 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 6 | Never open the front door to a caller unless you know the person . |
| 7 | You can ask to speak to a lesbian if you prefer . |
| 8 | Do n't feel restricted to a circle if you want to make a garland design , as it can easily be manoeuvred into other shapes . |
| 9 | Try to keep drinking to a minimum when you are pregnant , for the sake of your own health and your baby 's . |
| 10 | ‘ I can be anything up to a bear if you like . |
| 11 | No sooner have you got used to a place than you have to move on . ’ |
| 12 | Make sure you always run towards other people or to a shop if you can . |
| 13 | ‘ What sort of thing — talking to a woman after you 've spent a weekend in bed with her ? ’ |
| 14 | If you use a dinghy or a small boat , chain it up to a ring when you land and then padlock the chain . |
| 15 | Aside from the larger ectoparasites , you will need access to a microscope if you are to identify bacteria and protozoans . |
| 16 | Well there is up to a point because you know how bad they are at responding . |
| 17 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 18 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 19 | Go to an event where you will be ‘ forced ’ to join in ( ie a barn dance with a persuasive caller , an evening at a bowling alley , a table-tennis competition ) . |
| 20 | It is not possible to fit an overdrive to an FC unless you replace the gearbox with a normal control gearbox — top speed is restricted to approximately 45 mph . |