Example sentences of "[conj] you [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 4 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 5 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 6 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 8 | That you showed me on the plan ? |
| 9 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 11 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’ |
| 13 | You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life . |
| 14 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 15 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 16 | And you knocked it on the edge of a table ? |
| 17 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
| 18 | ‘ — well , they surely are now — and you hugged him tighter and tighter , and you dragged him through the divorce courts — ’ |
| 19 | Oh and you kept them off the road did you ? |
| 20 | And you rubbed it into the grain and you sandpapered that and it left white |
| 21 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 22 | I think it went like that before and you fixed it in the |
| 23 | the one I make , I made it once and you liked it with the almonds on top |
| 24 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 26 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 27 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 28 | Your dustbin will be returned near to where you left it , or if possible to a convenient point just inside your gate if you left it on the pavement . |
| 29 | I soon learned to hide it because if you left it in the dining room or by your place somebody else would take it . |
| 30 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |