Example sentences of "you [verb] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the last thing you expect to see is one of the most exquisite small houses in the land ; yet here , glimpsed down a short straight avenue of completely inappropriate young cherry trees , is Lodge Park . |
| 2 | It is surprising how many of the things that you want to draw are symmetrical in this way . |
| 3 | But you 're , well you , supposing you 've got two long conversations , what you want to do is two bits , I can transfer bits out of |
| 4 | Whatever you want to do is OK by me . |
| 5 | But I just do n't understand why you want to stop being exciting pop stars and become boring rock musicians . |
| 6 | Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ? |
| 7 | The movement of the boundary which you seek to create is possible only under the terms of Policy E Ten . |
| 8 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 9 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | Remember that even if the place you choose to snooze is well-shaded , the shadows may shift before you awake . |
| 11 | It is your bad luck if the warren you choose to ferret is one of these . |
| 12 | Going ahead and it started with annual wage increases because the wage increases that you did get were all about three , four or five percent at the time . |
| 13 | What you do say is good . |
| 14 | ‘ And if what you 've said is kosher , then somewhere there 'll be a bank of phones for him to do his dirty dealing on . |
| 15 | Danger signals arise when the normal pain and unhappiness that accompanies all emotional growth enlarges to become a depression which you simply can not shift , particularly if you feel ( for more than a passing moment ) that there 's nothing left to live for — or if you realise in time that you 've stopped being able to look after yourself . |
| 16 | So what you 've achieved is this piece over the stairs . |
| 17 | You see , whereas B types would say , no , I can see that what you 've done is acceptable and that 's alright . |
| 18 | What you 've done is qualified appointments by telephone . |
| 19 | The calculation 's fine what you 've done 's fine just mucked |
| 20 | If you think something you 've noticed is important , report it separately so that it can be put on the resident 's file . |
| 21 | It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure . |
| 22 | What you 've got is this . |
| 23 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 24 | All the pick-ups you 've mentioned are daft as a brush . |
| 25 | ‘ Anything you 've read is sure to be lies . ’ |
| 26 | Have you fallen into any obvious traps : failing to make a proper specification of the job requirements in the first place ; not having a really clear picture of the ideal candidate in your mind ; being swayed by an attractive and forceful personality ; doing more talking than listening ; looking for people with your own characteristics ; appointing someone who lacks some of the points you had decided were essential ; choosing the best of the bunch instead of rethinking ; rushing the interviews in circumstances which do not allow a proper conversation ? |
| 27 | Any flowers can be used , but take care to get the scale exactly right — using just one very large flower can look rather out of place , and if the flowers you wish to use are tiny , it will need a very complicated design to fill the card . |
| 28 | If the work you wish to attract is private client based and emanating from normal households , do not forget the possibility of a mail drop . |
| 29 | Traditionally , there are restrictions on using " I " : some teachers forbid it , as an example of inelegant intrusion by the author ( though nowadays it is generally thought permissible to use " I " occasionally , to emphasise a point which you wish to show is personal rather than general ) . |
| 30 | Any payment you have made is non-returnable unless 14 days ' notice is given or there are exceptional circumstances to be taken into account . |