Example sentences of "what you [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to hear what you hoped you 'd hear rather than what the other person is saying . |
| 2 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 3 | He will probably get you to agree the opposite of what you thought you said , as he did with " considerable " . |
| 4 | You did n't do what you thought you were doing . |
| 5 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 6 | And the rate of change of , of , of society no the background to what we 're doing , shifts the goalposts is the fashionable term but what you thought you meant you no longer mean , and of course , if one is meticulously methodical , one adjusts the definition as the circumstances change |
| 7 | Do what you like you see . |
| 8 | Guided by your inner teacher , then add what you know you need . |
| 9 | 12 Try to involve potential troublemakers as much as possible in the classroom activities and never threaten what you know you can not do . |
| 10 | When you have told me what you know you can go . |
| 11 | Now to put that into a phrase I found quite difficult to do er and but some people would n't question it but other people would say well what do you mean by that , what you know you plan for the future so that you can retire will be financially independent but it works and you your money work for you . |
| 12 | but I 'd be tempted to stick with what you know you can do when you 're actually in front of the customer . |
| 13 | If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline . |
| 14 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 15 | That 's what you said you were going to use . |
| 16 | it adds devalue do n't it ? , well why do n't you do what you said you were gon na do and have a , a doubled barrel name |
| 17 | That 's what you said you wanted . |
| 18 | Oh what you mean you 're gon na put at the bottom of the of , the same letter or |
| 19 | What you mean you 'd have blocking mechanisms ? |
| 20 | What you mean you just |
| 21 | Oh I know what you mean you went in like that and your back , your , your legs went like that there ? |
| 22 | What you mean you have find a f you have to find a murderer ? |
| 23 | We 're also talking in terms of a ministry which what you expect is very often what you get you 're trained to be somebody , okay ? . |
| 24 | Going on the Cinema 's maxim about what you imagine you 'll see often being more frightening than what you actually do see , the production team on ‘ The Daleks ’ chose wisely not to show the mutants inside the casings , save by suggestion and the odd teaser . |
| 25 | SERAFIN : I find your repeated appeal to what you suspect you think and what you imagine you did deeply suggestive . |
| 26 | ‘ Rewind the film ’ , and visualise what you wish you had said and done in that situation . |
| 27 | Be ready to say what you believe you 've learned from the discussion . |
| 28 | And that 's because , according to me , telling the truth means saying ( or otherwise conveying ) not what you believe , but what you believe you believe . |
| 29 | ‘ And you patrol the bank every day and what you find you take back to the Man ? ’ |
| 30 | He swung open the door and said over his shoulder , ‘ I do n't know what you think you 're doing , Martin , distracting the coroner 's officer in the execution of his duty . |