Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ?
2 Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific
3 You can avoid this if you alternate them with your regular shampoo or make sure you find one that does n't contain silicone such as Lamaur Compleat 2 , Mild or Extra variants .
4 We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ?
5 It 's easier if you do it on the board , and you can see it .
6 The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " .
7 In his line of business you do n't get to be forty unless you have something on the ball .
8 Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice .
9 You told me you had a bit of a chat with Angy before you asked her about the ring . ’
10 She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living .
11 " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? "
12 That way the syncro system will be pumping power to all four bits of rubber as you throw yourself into corners with all the wild confidence of a kiddie in a bouncy castle .
13 ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right .
14 It 's dangerous if you leave it on all night — you can start a fire and that if you ai n't careful .
15 ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’
16 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
17 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
18 It 's a screen about this big right and you put it on your dashboard and plug it in to your cigarette lighter and er it 's like a control centre and if there 's been a crash
19 If the expenses of the children 's education are more than you can contrive , I will help with that if you inform me by letter .
20 Cos they go out to work at half past eight and you hear them between half past seven and half past eight
21 If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening .
22 Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh .
23 They know nothing of that and you know nothing of them , to your mutual survival .
24 I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples .
25 ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’
26 Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years .
27 You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’
28 You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public .
29 ‘ It sounds pretty cold-hearted when you put it like that , but I love that little girl .
30 An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur .
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