Example sentences of "you [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you got busted in the lane did n't you ? |
| 2 | I suppose if you work at night you got to sleep during the day . |
| 3 | Now you can quit the heat of the kitchen and swan around on those yachts of yours you got stashed around the world . ’ |
| 4 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 5 | You were on piece work you got paid by the rivet sort of thing , so you had to go ahead with it . |
| 6 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 7 | So you got to park on the road . |
| 8 | You got to get around the ego . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 10 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 11 | They rotted quietly , like the dropped fruit you found hidden under the leaves of the tomato plants . |
| 12 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 13 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 14 | I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’ |
| 15 | And I said oh when was that and she said just after you 'd gone to the bank and I said oh I 've just spoken to him . |
| 16 | you 'd swopped over the record would n't help , is that right ? |
| 17 | Frequently , purveyors of delicate doodlings are n't much cop live , tiresome mumble 'n' fumble trappings making you wish you 'd stuck to the vinyl . |
| 18 | All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day . |
| 19 | You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend . |
| 20 | It really went to show that God was good ; when you 'd paid for the things you did and you were really sorry , He gave you something good to make it up to you . |
| 21 | The one you 'd booked for the summer had apparently dropped out . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I had n't imagined you 'd laid on the show for my benefit . ’ |
| 23 | I just assumed you 'd left in the morning . |
| 24 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 25 | Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ? |
| 26 | ‘ And when did you start to love me then , after you 'd got over the shock of my bikini , that is ? ’ |
| 27 | In time , I bore his child ; and so you came crying into the world , my son , protesting against life … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 29 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 30 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |