Example sentences of "or you [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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31 | Or you can mix it in the bottle with the oil so it 's always handy in your pocket if you ever have occasion to use it . |
32 | If you have a hundred people , as you say , well you can do all sorts of things ; you can take a vote , or you can argue it out , until you come to some kind of consensus . |
33 | You can massage them on your hands , on your temples , or you can use it as a what they call steam inhalation . |
34 | or you can use it as a tie round mhm , what about having , that 's a bit harder |
35 | Or you can take it easy amid the blooms of Stanmer or Preston Parks . |
36 | ‘ As you know there are two kinds of roughing you can either put frost-nails in the shoe or you can take it off and turn the heels and the toes of the shoes up — turning 'em up , we used to call it . |
37 | you can take it here or you can take it there , it 's just that the , the displayed decoder is safer |
38 | Some people are daunted by the technology of sound , but it 's basically just like water : you can send it out in a jet or you can spray it gently over everyone . |
39 | Do that , do that on sixty five divide by one hundred and eighty , multiply by the pi on your calculator , just one second Robin , yeah , it 's usually , it 's just theatrical , you should get , yeah , so you get the same answer , so you can either work it on ratings or you can write it like that , you could 've actually left it like that , if you come to the third by , you put thirteen over what is it ? eh |
40 | Or you can say it the other way round That 'll be a negative correlation Now the alternative would be when you plot them you get a circle almost , you get , there appears to be no systematic relationship between the two So what you 'd be tempted to say is , no correlation Now I 'm gon na try and move towards how we might measure , how might we actually measure , get a measure of correlation because what you 'd be able to say is , well they 're more correlated or less correlated . |
41 | You can work it out , how many pennies per gram , or you can work it out , how many grams per penny , and it does n't matter which way round you do it , as long as you know what the answer means , but which way do you prefer ? |
42 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
43 | Their address should be available from the hospital or you can find it in the telephone book . |
44 | Or you can select it and then say bind er and then deselect it and then pick it up and move it . |
45 | You can put it into fast-breeder reactors — the US has few of these — or you can convert it into isotopes for medical uses . |
46 | Or you could leave it on it 's own , could n't you cos it 's got the white things like dad 's |
47 | Or you could make it into a picture for a baby or toddler to hang on their bedroom wall . |
48 | Or you could make it the positive , but you ca n't have both . |
49 | or you could think it also true that I think wh what you think you 're supposed to like as well . |
50 | has written the comment , i.e. the member of staff has written it , you could then have something underneath if you wish to , that is the pupil 's , that will be obviously the pupil 's from the different writing , or the style of the writing er or you could open it up with we have agreed , if you wish to one make it a joint |
51 | So miles per hour per second , or you could measure it per hour if you wanted . |
52 | It costs eighty five p , and you can get it from any of the H M S O — Her Majesty 's Stationery Office — or you could order it , I should think , from most bookshops , and that 'll give you a pretty good overview of what Warnock is trying to do , and then , of course if anybody 's interested enough in comparing that with the Act , you 'll see the kind of things that were in the Warnock Report have n't actually come through in the act . |
53 | or we 'll get you one , or you could get it through your local news agency . |
54 | Or you could call it Brinkley Centenary |
55 | It can be played over a m7b9 chord , or you could play it over , say , a Cm7 to Dbmaj7 chord vamp . |
56 | Or you could put it into your introduction depending on which way you feel it is to handle . |
57 | the inside nought instead of the outside , or you could have it upside down or anything else , but that 's pointing North , you must line it up so it points North , right , now what bearing am I from you ? |
58 | someone must have been hungry , or you must like it |
59 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |