Example sentences of "you [vb base] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know alleged to be gold or silver from suitcases . |
| 2 | ‘ So , you 've decided to be co-operative ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad you 've decided to be sensible at last . |
| 4 | You 've had to be strong to survive — just as poor Nora had to be when your father died , and she was left on her own . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got to be Catholic . ’ |
| 6 | And then going on to say in doing that you 've got to be violent . |
| 7 | ‘ Just because you 're married does n't mean you 've got to be Siamese twins , ’ I said loftily . |
| 8 | you 've got to be practical right |
| 9 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to be nice to her , because she helped to save my life . ’ |
| 11 | It 's like a mini-performance ; you 've got to be good to maintain your cred , but what do you play ? |
| 12 | You 've got to keep your cool , you 've got to be strong in the head . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've got to be honest , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I think I did , er , mm no I say you 've got to be choosy , certainly I 'll agree with that , anyway by the sound of it , like |
| 15 | ‘ But when you 're in big business like I am , you 've got to be hot stuff at arithmetic . |
| 16 | You know , if you , if international trade is very difficult as it was , say two hundred years ago , then you 've got to be self sufficient . |
| 17 | You 've got to be awake at a wake , if you 're to survive . |
| 18 | Therefore you 've got to be selective in what you do and you 've got to be the right person to deal with those things , of course . |
| 19 | It 's not , you 've got to be clever with your hands in most of these |
| 20 | You 've got to be polite . |
| 21 | You 've got to be upset about it . |
| 22 | Older historians may still question the validity of oral data ; but , Briggs argues , ‘ you 've got to be critical of all forms of historical evidence ; they all have their pitfalls , but oral evidence is especially useful for recovering attitudes ’ — a point amply borne out by City Lives . |
| 23 | ‘ No , but you 've got to be serious , Joe , you 've got to watch out for Blackbeard . |
| 24 | Money and security can be a temptation , but you 've got to be firm and know when to turn off from what could be a blind alley . ’ |
| 25 | You 've got to be firm |
| 26 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 27 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 28 | But you 've got to be first-rate academically to get into medical school . |
| 29 | ‘ With an auction , you 've got to be certain that at least two buyers are there who can commit themselves , and the difficulty is that buyers who can proceed are few and far between , ’ said David Phillip , a director of Yorkshire estate agents Dacre Son and Hartley . |
| 30 | So therefore erm you 've got to be aware of these things and consider the safety implications as we all do . |