Example sentences of "[prep] you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearest you 'll get to Tina Turner , dear ! |
| 2 | Some of you may have read James Barr 's books on fundamentalism . |
| 3 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 4 | Some of you may have read the book by Helen Waddell about him and his love for Héloïse . |
| 5 | Some of you may have read Mary Craig 's book Blessings . |
| 6 | ‘ Some of you may think this is a fairy story , something I 've made up , but every word of it is true . |
| 7 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't pull away as chunks of you may detach themselves . |
| 9 | Both of you may also be keen for him to do ‘ exercises , to improve his physical condition . |
| 10 | My fourth point is that some of you may be persuaded to regard as a good reason for non-intervention the fact that the child , if it survives , will so disrupt its parents ' lives as to destroy the marriage , or will end up in some institution , in a form of living death . |
| 11 | Some of you may well be surprised to find that your image of that clock face was mistaken . |
| 12 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 13 | Most important of all , are you able to accept each other as equal , mature individuals , or has the parent/child relationship never been outgrown , so that one of you may feel the need to dominate , and the other will begin to lose confidence ? |
| 14 | Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them . |
| 15 | Many of you may be feeling the inset of charity fatigue as the London Marathon 1992 becomes nothing more than a passing memory . |
| 16 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
| 17 | Some of you may need a ‘ recap ’ on how to make a motif appear on the garment the same way round as in the graph , or in reverse . |
| 18 | Some of you may have seen leaflets about the knitting competition which is being run on behalf of the Stroke Association . |
| 19 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
| 20 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 21 | Before I go on , some of you may not have the foggiest what a fanzine is . |
| 22 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 23 | Now , some of you may remember , in the words of the old Depression song , ‘ a time when everything was cheap ’ . |
| 24 | Some of you may know Ivan already . |
| 25 | Some of you may know this story . |
| 26 | Well , if we had been a little more realistic , we would have included another item in the expenditure side — wasted time , which some of you may have included under the heading private study ! |
| 27 | Though some of you may question my priorities we must be under no illusion . |
| 28 | Right I 've mentioned questions you 'll notice that we 've got money and retirement mister John from now most of you may have seen the name in various erm very good speaker John you 'll a you 'll appreciate ca n't really say enjoy his talk because he really goes on and gives you a lot of information you 'll appreciate it rather than enjoy it . |
| 29 | In retirement some of you may be thinking of erm having some improvement work done to your house . |
| 30 | Some of you may remember households where there were servants . |