Example sentences of "you [verb] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you tend to gradually come round to the view that unless it 's causing very bad visual pollution , or you 've had a run of complaints about it , then you tend not to take a stat . ’ |
| 2 | You were only little so you toddled over to have a look . |
| 3 | Hampton M. Vins PS I hope you will charge your lowest price for it , and if you please not to send a duffil one , but a cloth one , full yard long , fail not on Wednesday , please to send it by Mr. Field the Waterman , who comes to the Beehive , at Queenhithe , pray do n't send a duffil one but a cloth one . |
| 4 | ‘ How would you like to 'ave to show your legs in an orphanage just because you 'ad n't got a farthing to your name ? ’ |
| 5 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 6 | But there again that 's the shareholders er do n't see you know like to get a bit more er information and good public relations for the company . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know how to set a fire ? ’ |
| 8 | Do you know how to drive a car ? ’ |
| 9 | Do you know how to feed a kitten whose appetite was formed in the wild ? |
| 10 | For instance — do you know how to change a baby 's nappy ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know how to make a cheese sauce ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you know how to make a fire with the peats ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do you know how to avoid a hangover for ever ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's not unlike language , if you grow up speaking a language , it 's easy |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd best take a jug with you . |
| 16 | Maybe you would have been safer if you 'd not chosen a career that could involve you with mine . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 18 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
| 19 | And you 'd just had a plastic cold just the favourite because for our Martine and pull her along in it . |
| 20 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better organize a couple of temps for us , ’ Georgina said . |
| 23 | ‘ Then you 'd better throw a blanket over your head , ’ he said quietly . |
| 24 | You 'd better find a plaster for that thumb or it might start bleeding again . ’ |
| 25 | He said , ‘ You 'd better have a rest after tea . |
| 26 | You 'd better have a go on these , I think . |
| 27 | You 'd better have a word with him . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better have a cigarette , Ellen . ’ |
| 29 | Well you 'd better have a cup of coffee or . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd better have a mechanic check it over before you try and drive it . ’ |