Example sentences of "you [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you obviously plumped for the army . ’ |
| 2 | Now , have you , you , you obviously heard of the home corner , yep ? |
| 3 | How comes you only stayed at the Curry House ? |
| 4 | Yeah but you only knit on the welt , then you put the needles on it spare pin , on a pin |
| 5 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 6 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 7 | I remember the days of the old motorbike test , when you just rode around the block a few times while the examiner walked to various points and watched you . |
| 8 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 9 | And you just walked through the street and he 'd carry on by . |
| 10 | When children discuss each other 's work out of role it tends to be along the lines of " The door opened different ways , Miss " or " You just walked through the table . " |
| 11 | In America that either means you made it , or you just got off the boat . |
| 12 | Well you just got into the way you lifted them and you just look my elbows are . |
| 13 | you just got into the car and roared away . |
| 14 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |
| 15 | You just talked about the cleaning people . |
| 16 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 17 | And er you all you always went round the boulevard to another road , another street went there and Street went down here . |
| 18 | We managed well enough before you ever came round the place . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This meeting was set up way before you ever appeared on the scene , ’ he said harshly . |
| 20 | ‘ You nearly went into the back of that bus . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ YOU really went over the top today , Charlie , ’ grinned the Captain to the Old Stager as they reassembled for the match . |
| 22 | Frankly , I had the situation well under control before you even appeared on the scene ! ’ |
| 23 | You simply stood by the grill and never took your eyes off it until it was the colour you wanted . |
| 24 | Corrugated earth , the nomes called it , after the corrugated cardboard you sometimes got in the Packing Department in the Store . |
| 25 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 26 | On the hole you either finished in the back bunker or short , in the water . |
| 27 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 28 | ‘ The statement of compliance with the Cadbury Code will be reduced to the sort of anodyne stuff you sadly read about the employment of disabled people in directors ’ reports . |
| 29 | and she goes , she goes oh that ca n't be true , she goes , she goes that ca n't be true your just making up a load of bull cos you never went to the cinema , I thought oh |
| 30 | OVER 56 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE CLASH |