Example sentences of "you [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You squeeze a dollop of special paste into a small cup at the base of the burner and light it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But if you pick a couple of complete no-hopers , rank outsiders , well , there 's no need to stay , is there ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | You you pick a track . |
| 8 | You need a focus for that desire to live , so you pick a therapy , orthodox or alternative , and you use it . |
| 9 | every time you get a question right you pick a card , but if you have more than , once you 've got more than nine cards you 've got to put one at the bottom of the pack again |
| 10 | You pick a card . |
| 11 | How would you conduct a survey to investigate any change of opinion during the experimental period ? |
| 12 | In the var section you declare a variable to be a pointer to a variable of that type . |
| 13 | Ski test : if you book a Ski Enterprise holiday in Tignes on March 17 or 24 , you can try out the 1990–91 range of skis from leading sports manufacturers . |
| 14 | The Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan cover virtually every aspect of your holiday , from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home , and because we want everyone to know where they stand with us it clearly spells out our obligations to you and your commitments to us when you book a holiday with us from this brochure . |
| 15 | All this is possible if you book a car through Enterprise to be collected at your arrival airport , for the duration of your holiday . |
| 16 | This curious misuse of language means that if you book a spot at anything less than the top rate , some time in advance , the station can re-sell it , at a higher rate , to anyone who wants it , at any time before the cancellation date . |
| 17 | If you make a hash of any of the work , he may worry that his reputation could be jeopardized , and could charge extra for putting things right . |
| 18 | You do n't want to lock your pictures away in a vault , so you make a vault of the room they 're in . |
| 19 | Every time you make a change , it 's instantly applied to a letter ‘ M ’ in one corner of the Window . |
| 20 | So you want to make a note of what 's changed , so when you make a change , who made it , . |
| 21 | Do this outside in case you make a mess . |
| 22 | You make a window for us . ’ |
| 23 | If you make a typing error then you can use the standard keys — the cursor keys to move and the delete keys to delete . |
| 24 | When you have considered the brief provided can we please discuss the detail and objective to allow me to expand on any points before you make a response . |
| 25 | I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before . |
| 26 | How you make a choice of career is likely to be a significant factor in determining how successful it ultimately is . |
| 27 | At night you make a bunker to sleep in |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
| 30 | They will often invite you in to see their stock , and if you make a purchase you may be rewarded with a glass of madeira wine . |