Example sentences of "you [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you tend to be inaccurate off the tee , remember that a tailwind usually reduces the effects of side spin on the ball so here 's your opportunity for the long drive . |
| 2 | Okay , now , what you should have in front of you , is a recipe for successful learning , because what you 've got at the top , right , what you 've got at the top is something that you 've learnt , and you think you 're pretty good at it , and what you 've got in the middle is , how you got to be good at it , and what you 've got at the end , is what you gain from having it . |
| 3 | ‘ You got to be young for that . |
| 4 | ‘ But you got to be ready for it . |
| 5 | Do you want to be close to work or near transport facilities ? |
| 6 | Do you want to be near to something e.g. friends , theatres , swimming baths , country parks , bustling town ? |
| 7 | ‘ Now , darlin' , you want to be nice to old Eddie , ’ he said softly . |
| 8 | If you want to be close to the centre there 's a campsite within the grounds . |
| 9 | If you want to be involved with your local school , let our Branch Educ . |
| 10 | Here 's a list of words you should know if you want to be involved in the PD scene . |
| 11 | IF YOU want to be involved in activities such as these — writing letters to help victims of human rights abuses and campaigning on their behalf — please contact your nearest local group . |
| 12 | But if you 're actually involved in it , and you want to be involved in the people , then I think you have to know something about it . |
| 13 | If you want to be sure of having deterred the enemy , you have to fire first . |
| 14 | And these are just some of the questions you need to ask yourself if you want to be sure of financial security ! |
| 15 | If you want to be sure of the presence of another rabbit , put more pressure on the line and the ferret will then emerge . |
| 16 | You want to be sure of |
| 17 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 18 | Nerves of steel help if you want to be successful in media buying . |
| 19 | If you want to be successful in public relations you must be literate , articulate and numerate and have a flair with words . |
| 20 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 21 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 22 | ‘ You want to be careful with those , ’ the Hare-woman said . |
| 23 | " Ah yes , " he said , " you want to be careful of that one . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean you want to be alone with me as much as I want to be alone with you ? ’ he enquired . |
| 25 | ACHINESE proverb has it that if you want to be happy for a week , get married ; for a month , kill a pig ; for a lifetime , plant a garden . |
| 26 | ACCORDING to the British Medical Journal , ‘ If you want to be happy for a night get drunk , for a year get married , and for a lifetime get a garden . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You appear to be ignorant of the proper way to behave in an office of this kind . |
| 28 | ‘ You appear to be familiar with two groups of the old : the wingeing paranoid dimwits who can think of nothing better to do than queue unnecessarily , and the depraved and corrupt denizens of ffeatherstonehaugh 's . |
| 29 | RETAIL SALESPERSON : I can see that you appear to be interested in our stereo equipment . |
| 30 | Do you need to be near to something e.g. schools , college , work , family , medical services ? |