Example sentences of "[vb past] you [verb] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the tone stopped you had reached the end of the line — and that indicated the ferret 's position .
2 What made you decide to start a gallery ?
3 You seem to have an emotion , that made you resent making a sacrifice to your brother , and , and presumably , would have stopped you making it , if you 'd been free to choose .
4 Yeah er and they made you wait wait an hour , duck .
5 But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’
6 ‘ Did you move about much in here when you came in and realised you 'd had an intruder ? ’
7 But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’
8 you called you 've called the computer mummy , ha , ha , you 're cheating .
9 Which meant you had to try the mixing drop it onto the plate count how many you got out it clean out the machine and try another one and do the same again and the same again .
10 ‘ I knew you 'd had a son , but I did n't realise he was in the house , ’ Vitor said .
11 Thought you had to put the weight on by law ?
12 I thought you had to put the lid on it for , if you did it for quarter of an hour ?
13 When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse !
14 I thought you had taken the cab to Reading . ’
15 Well I was allowing you time with your leg but we thought you 've got the telly on loud .
16 I thought you went to get a tape the other night .
17 Thought you 'd flown the coop . ’
18 ‘ I thought you 'd seen the body ? ’
19 I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty .
20 I thought you 'd done a runner and run away
21 ‘ When I did see him , he said ‘ I thought you 'd got a cold ? ’
22 I thought you 'd got a bit carried away when you were drawing them . ’
23 ‘ I thought you 'd left the country for good . ’
24 , I thought you 'd started a book to put those , all these paper cuttings ?
25 ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat .
26 Did you go to see the river yesterday ?
27 Did you intend to fire the gun when you picked it up ? ’
28 Why did you choose to become a fuel technician ? ’
29 This is an enormous project , why did you decide to pick the summer of nineteen forty ?
30 Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you
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