Example sentences of "you [modal v] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 2 | Right , you may troop by that and look down there , notice I was n't wearing the goggles that was naughty of me was n't it ? |
| 3 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 4 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 5 | If you may sort of done it |
| 6 | You must gauge for yourself whether or not you have struck up a good relationship with the interviewer and whether a letter would work for you or against you . |
| 7 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 8 | A student 's life is ruled by the clock : there 's a time to be up and about if you want breakfast ; a time to be in college for a lecture or tutorial ; a time by which you must hand in an essay or project report ; a time to study and a time to relax . |
| 9 | up to one X you should times by two which is twenty nine . |
| 10 | Because you should sort of stand |
| 11 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |
| 12 | You should hand in your assignments by Tuesday . |
| 13 | Try to keep your dog walking in a straight line , so that it does not pull across you to reach another dog , because otherwise you might trip over the leash . |
| 14 | You have to keep looking , unless you have mirrors or something you might mirrors on it . |
| 15 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 16 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 17 | Before we before my mam had the house in Road that was just what you might sort of still call it . |
| 18 | In effect you , you , you , you , you 've got the church , you 've got erm you , you might sort of move from collaborators with the Japanese to collaborators with the Kuomintang , I E the counter-revolutionaries . |
| 19 | You might sort of like bark . |
| 20 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 21 | When you book your ( Club 19–30 ) Holiday we want you to be so satisfied that you 'll book with us again next year . |
| 22 | taller but you 'd kind of grow out . |
| 23 | He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father . |
| 24 | Because you 'd sort of , they , they 'd go up and then if , if you went any farther you 'd go on to the doctors ' lectures you see . |
| 25 | Er and often you 'd go into a quite a poor home and you 'd , you 'd sort of er , th there was n't the money about you see in , in those days . |
| 26 | Erm so I mean I think , you know , it might be useful , well , in some ways it would be very useful for you to have erm two sort of six month stints in rather different environments so that then you 'd sort of keep your options open a bit . |
| 27 | Well I du n no whether we whether you 'd sort of when you 're so close really . |
| 28 | If this was sort of a cubic or something then you 'd have all sorts of terms and you could chance of making a mistake . |
| 29 | Big osier ones , flat , that you could crook over your arm or set on the ground . |
| 30 | Nobody expects me to say that you could gig with either of these amps , do they ? |