Example sentences of "and you [vb base] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And you know we arranged for that , but I had a bit of a job to come from school .
2 And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times .
3 Um one of the things that you sometimes find is that the abuse is characterised is something special , something secret , something that you should n't tell anybody else about because it 's our secret and you know what happens to people who tell secrets ?
4 And you know what happens from there , she 'll be dumped in a common grave : there 'll be no pious words said over her , her being a suicide .
5 When wood begins to fail in compression little lines of buckled fibres can just be seen running diagonally or across the grain but these are easily missed unless the surface is clean and you know what to look for .
6 so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off
7 Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about .
8 I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then .
9 And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England .
10 You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . "
11 When you work with people and you communicate you listen to what they say and you make sure you say what you need to say then that trust is there and that trust builds and it fosters trust , and really that 's what we 've got ta be looking for in the work situation .
12 If you have a cat and you let it walk around the countryside rather than confine it in your house ; what is the consequence ?
13 It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days .
14 Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark .
15 For example sometimes they overestimate certain works of art and you wonder you know during the sale you see it 's estimated forty to fifty thousand so you think they 'll never give it to you for less .
16 And you expect me to agree to all that ?
17 And you expect me to work for you , knowing you have not one ounce of faith in my abilities as a landscape designer ? ’
18 ‘ The voice I recognized — oh yes — that will never change , please God , and you have nothing to do with that , Franz .
19 The only time that you will hear about it is whe , if you have the television on and you see it happening on the parliament and on your papers .
20 What if you have a class of 32 and you want them working in groups of four , but today there are only 30 in school ?
21 And you want me to go with you ?
22 Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are .
23 and you say nothing succeeds like success and number seventeen is success and how do you spell success
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