Example sentences of "[noun] you [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
2 | you only need a a handful of colleagues with strong views er opposing an issue you immediately create a cliffhanger . |
3 | My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go . |
4 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
5 | But in that case you just take a piece of new paper and put the down and put it on the clip . |
6 | a lot of his work is , sort of , rather than getting copies you just do a printout |
7 | At this level you definitely require a frame . |
8 | With the old method it would take you hours looking through files , but with the computer you just push a button and it tells you right away . |
9 | If he does n't do this within the deadline period you then have a year and a day in which to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
10 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
11 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
12 | ‘ Ent you never seen a cow ? ’ but Willie did n't answer . |
13 | Once you become a student of the University of Ulster you automatically become a member of the Students ' Union and therefore can participate in , and enjoy the wide range of social , political and sporting activities which the Union organises . |
14 | In a final year paper you just put a line through that and say , that does n't answer the question . |
15 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
16 | In reality you just invent a tale , as if you were sitting round a fire in a cave . ’ |
17 | It 's available from our county headquarters , which is in Middle Way , and of course if you 're a W I member you immediately get a pound off it , off the face price of seven ninety-five , which is a very modest price for a very prestigious book . |
18 | Along with a spring balance you also need a weighing sling . |
19 | Is n't it time you either made a charge and got it over with , or you damned well got out of here , and Mister Bloody Hamilton with you ? ’ |
20 | It 's one o'clock ( or six , or ten or whatever time you usually have a meal ) ; |