Example sentences of "[subord] you [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the young man is right , ’ said Mrs Grandison ‘ I do n't remember seeing you take a pudding . |
| 2 | Take that camera with you — the miniature job Zeiss developed for us where you get a picture within a minute of taking the shot . |
| 3 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 4 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 5 | where you take a picture of a building and you |
| 6 | Unlike the punchcards , where you indicate a button on the graph , this is the needle that will be selected . |
| 7 | You know , where you put a penny by each week in case your nipper gets sick and dies . |
| 8 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 9 | It 's that game where you make a grid on a sheet of graph paper and each player has one battleship ( four squares ) , two cruisers ( three squares ) , three destroyers ( two squares ) and so on , then you have to knock out the opponent 's fleet . |
| 10 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 11 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 12 | It 's not like shopping , where you have a list of — ’ |
| 13 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 14 | Turn right over the bridge and where you see a sign on the left for Muchelney and Drayton go through the gate . |
| 15 | Turn right where you see a waymark arrow and bear left crossing the stile around 150yds further on . |
| 16 | The cheapest way to eat — and the most fun — is at the open-air food markets , where you find a table then pick from a huge variety of Chinese , Indian and Malay dishes . |
| 17 | Another type of jumping is cross country where you jump a variety of logs and other well constructed ( usually wooden ) jumps , they can be very solid , high and wide . |
| 18 | In filming you have a lot of this to do where you read a script through once and then have go . |
| 19 | There 's also another thing that a golf course has is a where you want a distance marker . |
| 20 | There are three types of trails in the Grand Canyon — maintained , where there 's a good path , semi-maintained where there may be a path , and unmaintained where you need a compass . |
| 21 | Okay can be used for important matters where you need a copy or a record of what 's been done . |
| 22 | Although you want a commitment from a certain person , or to remove the uncertainty from a precarious situation , do n't try too hard to pin things down . |
| 23 | The one thing you do not do is to plant your tree and then start looking for something to use for ties , any more than you bash a stake in afterwards and damage the roots . |
| 24 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 25 | There are more dog cards than you shake a stick at yet the bookies are peddling this tripe from South Africa through the morning . |
| 26 | 3 Do you buy more or less of the following than you did a year ago ? |
| 27 | ‘ So you took a job in Germany ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All right , so you made a mistake , but it got you going , did n't it ? |
| 29 | No one can insure against all eventualities and so you strike a balance between the re- and pro-active aspects of your work . |
| 30 | Erm we 're trying to have beer put on the price each time now to make it worthwhile so you get a chance of getting your money back . |