Example sentences of "you [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 3 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 4 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 5 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 6 | ‘ You dropped him for the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 7 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 8 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 9 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 10 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 11 | Sure , you loved them in the '70s . |
| 12 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 13 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 14 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 15 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 18 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 19 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 20 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 22 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 23 | you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ? |
| 24 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 25 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 26 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |