Example sentences of "you [verb] is [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 2 | Only other thing I can you do is try it on when she 's asleep . |
| 3 | But what I want you to do is gather information , this is your answers , and match what you 're doing er , what we sa provide with what you found out then . |
| 4 | What I want you to do is shout out as many features of the plan as you can think of , and then in a minute we 'll look at changing them into benefits . |
| 5 | What I 'd like you to do is do this question again now okay ? |
| 6 | Erm every time you 've got those words there in what I want you to do is pause into the time clause |
| 7 | Now what I 'd like you to do is show me can you divide it up if we were going to eat this whole pizza between the two of us if it was one one shared out between two people how much would we get ? |
| 8 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 9 | Now what I want you to do is ask yourself do n't discuss it just write down for me and I 'll go round the table . |
| 10 | All I all I ask you to do is smile . |
| 11 | What I want you to do is look at them and assess — in your considered opinion — whether they can be made to work or not . |
| 12 | And all I want you to do is ring the answers . |
| 13 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 14 | The first thing I 'd like you to do is try to write er will you please write down erm do n't shout out at the moment , write down what would be your definition of foreign policy . |
| 15 | What I want you to do is try and work out if you spent the same , not the same amount of money but |
| 16 | So all we want you to do is remember the video remember Pippin yeah ? |
| 17 | So that 's one tenth and that 's one tenth and then what I 'd like you to do is work it out as a fraction what fraction of how many degrees would it be if you had a tenth of three hundred and sixty degrees , how many degrees would that come to ? |
| 18 | All we ask you to do is enjoy yourself . |
| 19 | I mean obviously what they want you to do is buy Word . |
| 20 | ‘ All I want you to do is get me to Habane . |
| 21 | I want , what I want you to do is get into groups of four in a minute , according to these instructions . |
| 22 | " Doctor , " she replied , " All I 'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs . " |
| 23 | So what I 'd like you to do if you have n't got some paper there 's stacks of paper here and what I 'd like you to do is grab a piece of paper and write down what I 'm going to tell you . |
| 24 | Yes , everybody , O K , now I 'll pay the phone bill , all I want you to do is pick up the phone and every time you pick up the phone and make an attempt to get me an appointment , I 'll give you a pound . |
| 25 | Just very quickly summarise that and what I 'd like you to do is take notes in the new form that we 've got now with er a thought pattern so if you , |
| 26 | All you do is send us your name and address to be here please no later than this coming Friday afternoon 's afternoon show . |
| 27 | What you do is stake out a corner of one of the canteens , the zero-gyms . |
| 28 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 29 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 30 | ‘ All you do is re-distribute the rubbish over a wider area . ’ |