Example sentences of "you [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you broken up erm |
| 2 | ‘ Have you broken down ? ’ |
| 3 | What we have to say is , straight from Essex Police if that happens to you , get out , wherever possible on the passenger 's side of the vehicle and then go to your nearest box and then you pick up the receiver and get through the police control room and they will ask you a series of questions , have you broken down ? |
| 4 | That 's you buggered up . |
| 5 | Have you travelled abroad much , Mr McKillop ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The real you goes away , the unreal one stays here . |
| 7 | Time for you goes faster than theirs , right ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll sew them back when you goes home . |
| 9 | The Alexander Technique , by giving a means to release the excessive build-up of tension , helps you to perform much nearer to your maximum ability with the minimum amount of effort . |
| 10 | I recommend you pick reasonably dry conditions for scrambling up these cloughs , unless you have a penchant for floundering through dark , peat-stained raging torrents or swimming up thundering waterfalls . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I lend you some at least until you pick up your wages tomorrow ? ’ |
| 12 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 13 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 14 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 15 | Along life 's way you pick up little techniques that help you control your behaviour , get your own way , become strong-willed . |
| 16 | You weave uncertainly along the road at first , but soon you pick up speed and rush smoothly forward , and your heart leaps with joy at the mastery of the thing . |
| 17 | And then you pick up something a bit more up-to-the-minute , such as Geoffrey Cannon and Hetty Einzig 's Dieting Makes You Fat , and you read this : |
| 18 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 19 | Here you pick up 2 to 3 centimetres of flesh on the thigh and roll it between your fingers and thumb ( Fig 23 ) . |
| 20 | When you pick up the phone , say ‘ Good morning afternoon ’ and announce the name of the company or department . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 22 | You pick up the plate , touch your nose and then you touch the bottom of the plate and then stroke your cheek and nose . |
| 23 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 24 | If you pick up something like a Super 400 you play things like Fade To Black rather than Heavy Fuel . |
| 25 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 26 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 27 | The most important pre-flight check is to ensure that you pick up the handles so that right and left align with the correct bridles . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 29 | As you go on , you pick up presents , and if you 're lucky you 'll find a man dressed as a carrot who tells you what 's in them . |
| 30 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |