Example sentences of "you have [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stroke ye 've halved the white man 's burden ! ’ |
| 2 | And should n't you , you 've done the spare kitchen scissors good ! |
| 3 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 4 | You 'd done the hard part correctly , calculating what the weight would be for so many engines . |
| 5 | The phrase ‘ black humour ’ had an altogether different ring once you 'd caught the racist patter of the stand-up comedians who work the clubs and pubs round Brick Lane or the Mile End Road . |
| 6 | And then same the other end , and so it went right through that waggon , and your coupling took the strain for the next waggon and so on and so on until you 'd got the complete train fitted up . |
| 7 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 8 | ‘ At first I was prepared to think you 'd made a genuine mistake — that you 'd got the wrong boat . ’ |
| 9 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 10 | I do n't envy you having to tell the dear lady that she 'll have to spend the rest of her holiday with her wrist in plaster ! ’ |
| 11 | but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ? |
| 12 | Why do you have to put the bloody age down ? |
| 13 | ‘ You 've missed the depressing bit , Karl . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But surely you 've missed the whole point … ’ |
| 15 | And setting foot inside Tuscan Club apartments you know that you 've made the right choice . |
| 16 | If the ad contains the words Company Member of the Master Locksmiths Association , and/or displays the MLA 's distinctive logo of two crossed keys ( reproduced here ) , you can be confident that you 've made the right choice . |
| 17 | I think you 've made the right choice ; sun and sand and … ’ |
| 18 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows nothing , she |
| 19 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows |
| 20 | … You 've lost the personal touch with the higher management . |
| 21 | Yeah , course I mean as a bat er pitched a bat on this is a beau a beauty but are there are rough spots which you 've helping the slow left arm , or help any spinner . |
| 22 | You 've seen the mac , you 've seen the yellow florry jacket , the fluorescent jacket |
| 23 | But it it it needs the heat to lift the the the white p You 've seen the white polish |
| 24 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 25 | I said , do you realise you 've eaten the whole packet ! |
| 26 | So use the other half of the diagram , and then when you 've done the other half , the whole thing is a two-fold rotation about the centre of C. |
| 27 | Well let's think about it once more I know you 've done the correct thing cos I 've just looked . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've done the easy bit , Alan , ’ he joked , sipping orange juice . |
| 29 | I 'm thrilled you 've done the decent thing — ’ |
| 30 | Is that all you 've done the whole evening — read ? ’ |