Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unchanging first part of the sentence is always : What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about … ? |
| 2 | What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about boomerangs ? |
| 3 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 4 | As Guha points out , there is none of this management ego trip stuff of going upmarket so that people compliment you on your Littlewoods tie when you go to the golf club . |
| 5 | These are the sort of things you might suggest that people give you for your birthday , Christmas or other religious celebration . |
| 6 | Do you feel that people understand you better there ? |
| 7 | You may find that people offer you conflicting advice and opinions about your duties and the patient 's condition . |
| 8 | ‘ When you go into a competition that you know you can win , and you know that people expect you to win , then there is a lot more pressure on you than on someone who is less well known . |
| 9 | If you are catching 7lb and 8lb fish you have little chance of catching anything under 6lb at that time . |
| 10 | MENTION big-time tennis venues round here and folk let you prattle on about Wimbledon , Roland Garros , Flushing Meadow and Flinders Park and then press a few claims of their own . |
| 11 | No like cos people go you mean like you mean like |
| 12 | If you 're a comic and you walk down the street and people recognize you , it means a lot of people are watching your show and that 's a kind of indicator of quality or success or whatever . |
| 13 | I if anybody was sleeping in the house like , and people think you are |
| 14 | She said you say what you 've got to say and people understand you . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't get the crowds until you 're right up there and people realise you 're going to get promotion . |
| 16 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 17 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 18 | li as he said it does n't matter if you do n't remember it but if people ask you questions and you do n't know the answer , please send them down . |
| 19 | Erm no I I honestly do n't think that er that the the problem is as big as as big as you you say it is and I I think the the structures are there to deal with that and if if people had you know if people used them then they would they would work and they from time to time that they are used and you know it it is not impossible to get rid of rid of a teacher in in the way you are suggesting . |
| 20 | ‘ If people told you he said that , it was to make you feel better . |
| 21 | If people hear you come from Blackbird Leys you get condemned for it . |
| 22 | I know it 's a different subject like this is drugs and the other thing is smoking but like it 's still the same if people see you do it people take things off you . |
| 23 | If people give you things , they should give freely , extracting nothing in return . |
| 24 | If people associate you with the ‘ Carry On ’ films , they do n't think of you as anything else . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll never know if people want you for your looks or for yourself . |
| 26 | If you ever get to be a concert violinist , which I personally doubt , you 'll always wonder if people want you on the platform because of your looks or because you 're any good . ’ |
| 27 | Now I 've told this tale before and some bright spark said Aye but th do you know there are five in the British Isles ? |
| 28 | Because people ignore you more |
| 29 | because people pinch you see . |
| 30 | I 've often felt desperate too , but I 've never been able to talk about it because people think you 're being superior : holier than human . |