Example sentences of "[be] your " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | How 're your roses ? ’ |
| 3 | They 're your team really . |
| 4 | We 're your friends . |
| 5 | They 're your favourite , says Mom . |
| 6 | But with Louis discussion was alien territory and deadly dangerous : ‘ They 're your men . |
| 7 | Bina , I say to myself — you think these people will be nice to you because you 're your parents ' daughter , because you 're Cal 's friend and she 's pretty , because you 're Chris 's … |
| 8 | They 're your nearest neighbours , with the exception of myself . ’ |
| 9 | We 're your worst nightmare . |
| 10 | It 's a socio-economic grouping , they 're your skilled labourer . ’ |
| 11 | They 're your class too , Ruth . ’ |
| 12 | We also need to talk to the tutors and say to them they 're your clients , are you meeting their needs ? |
| 13 | We 're your goddam public , so do n't you fuck with us . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 're your fingers , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We 're your bulwark against the underscum . |
| 16 | Including photocopies of birth certificates , mortgages — even when they 're your own , like mine . |
| 17 | To an extent you 're your own master … you can decide what you want to do and when you want to do it … it 's not like being at work when somebody rings you up and you 've got to go down and see them or you 've got to do this and that within half an hour . |
| 18 | You 're your own boss , like . |
| 19 | Many of the answers — nineteen in all — used this phrase ‘ you 're your own boss ’ to describe the housewife 's feeling of being in control . |
| 20 | For a time Bond was a bigger draw than Elvis , making Connery intensely glamorous and almost absurdly famous ; college kids in the Bahamas mobbed him shouting : ‘ You 're our leader , we 're your people ! ’ |
| 21 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 22 | The people because you do n't have children who are very close to you because they 're your spouse 's nephew and niece but they 're not your nephew and your niece . |
| 23 | They 're your bread and butter , now . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're your insurers . ’ |
| 25 | Parents are n't people , they 're your parents . |
| 26 | They 're your responsibility . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's dangerous , a cold when you 're your age , dear , ’ she said to Miss Trimm . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're your pots , ’ he answered unhelpfully . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're your own worst enemy , Rincewind , ’ said the sword . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're your friends , ’ said Libby . |