Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 2 | Either that or you stood on it . |
| 3 | ‘ It must be very different where you come from , ’ Lady Grubb said enigmatically to Len , who came from Putney . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's different where you come from . |
| 5 | ‘ But you made it perfectly clear that you disapproved of shipboard romances . |
| 6 | You make it quite clear that you need to be alone , but the other person either can not or will not hear . |
| 7 | Do n't make more out of this than you have to . |
| 8 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 9 | Now you can do this if you wish of course on ordinary plain paper because all you need to do to create your five empty bars I would suggest is we 'll assume that 's your thing there . |
| 10 | That there 's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness . |
| 11 | Now , erm , what 's wrong with this if you think about it , is that er it 's hard to know what fitness and fittest means and although I 'm now gon na spend about ten minutes talking about it , this will be the last time you 'll hear me mention the word fitness , and I strongly advise you to do the same , for reasons which I will now n now explain . |
| 12 | Be prepared to question this if you want to , and do not retreat from any withering looks . |
| 13 | I , I 'd rather finish with the other question , or , or the made by the Major in the press question , are you , do you want to follow up the , I mean , have a vote on this if you want to ? |
| 14 | ‘ I think you 're very sensible if you feel like that about it . |
| 15 | First of all you have to be unemployed and you have to be black or Asian . |
| 16 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 17 | This service is free if you go to a justice of the peace ) . |
| 18 | They product five superb maps of the reef , free if you call at their offices near the quay . |
| 19 | Be careful if you stay at this level for long . |
| 20 | We all had a good laugh about it , but it was not so funny if you happened to be Keith Fletcher . |
| 21 | NOTE Because ears are so sensitive , it is very painful if you shout in the ear of someone whose aid is switched on . |
| 22 | If you come out of our , out of a swimming pool and you 're wet and you stand on the side and you 're beginning to get cold , what 's your body reaction , what do you do ? |
| 23 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
| 24 | Well , things are different if you live in the Gorgie-Dalry area of Edinburgh — or at least , they were until recently . |
| 25 | There is no great demand for pen computing from Western users of mid-range systems , but things are rather different if you happen to be Chinese — and 1,200m people in the People 's Republic alone are — and are constrained to use thousands of ideographic characters , and Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has gone to IBM Corp for an OEM agreement on its AS/400 computers and plans to fit the terminals with its PenDOS and Handwriter Recognition System software and integrate the machines into its pen-based computer product line being designed for China ; Communication Intelligence plans to market its Chinese pen-based office automation system through partnerships with the Chinese government , with the first out in 12 months . |
| 26 | You 're grey and black like a big rat , but I love you because you 're English and you wait for me every day . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Maggie , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I 'm sorry to make you do this but you have to . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it was OK because you came from Hong Kong . |
| 29 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 30 | ‘ So I want you to be very brave while you listen to it . |