Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] you do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll take it home well and you can have , well there 'll be nowt bloody said at our house after five o'clock so you do n't |
| 2 | Find a long jumper that comes well down , and tuck it in so you do n't get a draught over your kidneys . |
| 3 | Fill in the order form below so you do n't miss out . |
| 4 | ‘ He probably thought it better that you did n't know . |
| 5 | Plan to eat often enough that you do not get extremely hungry and lose control . |
| 6 | The aim of the game being to find out ways in which they do things better than you do rather than the other way around . |
| 7 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 8 | Sub-text : I am a skilled interpreter who makes sense of things — better than you do . |
| 9 | And better than you do , you young whippersnapper ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You will forgive me if I insist that I understand Mrs Frere better than you do yourself . |
| 11 | I laughed and said , ‘ I sleep better than you do . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know it a damn sight better than you do ! ’ |
| 13 | I know my cousin better than you do . ’ |
| 14 | This question allows for the possibility of an actual mistake , big or small , as well as acknowledging that you can always do even better than you did . |
| 15 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 17 | It is important obviously that you do n't go too far with these techniques . |
| 18 | Erm now we advise you to fill that in once you do return to work because at least then they can let you know if you are going to exceed the limit . |
| 19 | Was he one of those people who told jokes with a perfectly straight face so that you did n't know if it was a joke or not ? |
| 20 | The problem I must admit the problem that surprised me with overheads is that erm people ca n't write and listen at the same time , or the other thing is , you put something on an overhead th every bit of it gets written down which is why I adapted it so that you did . |
| 21 | So that you did n't |
| 22 | Until you are consistently getting the photos you want from inside the photographic sector , you will need to fly some distance beyond the turning point so that you do not have to be in a very steep turn or exactly positioned . |
| 23 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 24 | Good lecterns today also have space for microphone wiring built into them so that you do n't have wire trailing around the place and looking unsightly , or a big boom mike stand in front . |
| 25 | Mostly they 're haphazard so that you do n't hear anything for months at a stretch , or they 're impersonal , or the responses are not followed-up and developed , or they are stupefyingly dull . |
| 26 | What 's more , so that you do n't have to walk too far to get from place to place , most of the nightlife is crammed into one strip no more than 400 metres long , which has bars , cafés and discos on 3 levels , just like one enormous night club with over 50 bars and dance floors . |
| 27 | ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob — push the door open — go inside — close the door gently behind you so that you do n't wake up anybody else in the house ; now you go to the basin — put the plug in — turn on the tap — it 's a very stiff tap … ’ ( p. 196 ) . |
| 28 | Ruth Rendell and others advise plotting your story carefully in advance so that you do n't get carried away by unnecessary detail or a minor character . |
| 29 | You need to pace yourself , so that you do not get carried away by the never-ending tasks that could fill your day with frenetic activity . |
| 30 | Take three breaths and then repeat the Energizing Breathing so that you do it three times altogether . |