Example sentences of "you [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Ye look like ye met a vampire . ’
2 D' ya want a biscuit ?
3 D' ya want a biscuit ?
4 D' ya want a chocolate one ?
5 D' ya want a game of table tennis ?
6 D' ya want a cup of Dawn ?
7 d' ya want a coffee ?
8 At the funeral near Belfast , Jack was startled by a tap on the shoulder in the church and a man 's voice hissing , ‘ Do ye want a lift to the cemetery ? ’
9 ‘ But do ye want a lift ? ’
10 Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’
11 Ye get bombed in this country if ye show a light .
12 Ye look a bit skinny , ’ the woman said .
13 How d' ya move a country ?
14 How d' ya move a country ?
15 He fills ye up with coke , uses ye like a whore
16 Maybe soon I 'll let ye have a chance to see if you can do anything — but remember , miracles are often caused by good luck . ’
17 ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw .
18 Why d' ya take a picture ?
19 and d' ya have a lot of ?
20 Ye gave a loan out on the watch ? ’
21 D' ya get a lot of kids in there ?
22 Ye take a gander at the engines .
23 You squeeze a dollop of special paste into a small cup at the base of the burner and light it .
24 LIFESPAN will use this code to uniquely identify the media items for offline storage ( the built-in intelligent archiver ) ; eg. if you pick a LIFEID of LT , media for this process must be labelled LT0001 , LT0002 etc .
25 But if you pick a couple of complete no-hopers , rank outsiders , well , there 's no need to stay , is there ?
26 and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and this go-kart worth a thousand pound on the so they 're having to do that you see .
27 Now when you pick a paw pear before prickling when you pick a pawpaw for a prickly pear and you pick the wrong pear next time beware !
28 Now when you pick a paw pear before prickling when you pick a pawpaw for a prickly pear and you pick the wrong pear next time beware !
29 You you pick a track .
30 You need a focus for that desire to live , so you pick a therapy , orthodox or alternative , and you use it .
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