Example sentences of "[noun] you [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 2 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 3 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 4 | In his address to the two houses of the Parliament he proclaimed : ‘ My reign does not date from 1815 ; it dates from the moment you informed me of the nation 's votes . ’ |
| 5 | It was the day you took me to the Beatles . ’ |
| 6 | The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country . |
| 7 | If you already receive Housing Benefit we will automatically work out your Poll Tax Benefit from the information you gave us on the ‘ Review ’ form we recently sent . |
| 8 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 9 | Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the |
| 10 | The presentation of the Statement of Commitment to any group of people is n't the easiest of tasks to perform , but the gentle and personal way you handled it in the sections for which you had a responsibility was very well done , as we knew it would be . |
| 11 | And he put me off of that the other ones you gave me with the , what was it ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's time you took yourself off the market , ’ she said . |
| 13 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 15 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |