Example sentences of "you [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When you told me about the horoscopes , did n't I tell you I wanted to help ? |
| 32 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 33 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 34 | You told me about the motor . |
| 35 | ‘ And , even when you told me about the break-in , I knew it was n't really that . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ You subjected her to the sight of yourself indecently exposing yourself by way of a prelude to what you later did , ’ added the judge . |
| 37 | In his address to the two houses of the Parliament he proclaimed : ‘ My reign does not date from 1815 ; it dates from the moment you informed me of the nation 's votes . ’ |
| 38 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 39 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 40 | You telephoned me at the hotel and had that long conversation with me . ’ |
| 41 | You , you both su some of it , you soaked ours on the roof . |
| 42 | That you showed me on the plan ? |
| 43 | To make things vanish you threw them in the air then cooked and ate them . |
| 44 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
| 45 | ‘ Then , when you disinherited me on the spot — oh , I do n't blame you for that , do n't think it ! — when you said we might reap the just rewards of our flight and marry as paupers , he … he left me flat . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ You landed it on the ground ! |
| 47 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 48 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 49 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 50 | And you knocked it on the edge of a table ? |
| 51 | ‘ You killed him in the raid on the armoured van . |
| 52 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 53 | I do n't want to ring your mum and say look we had a spot of bother but now we 're back in Caracas and Matt 's dead , yes , you heard it on the news but I do n't want to talk about it . |
| 54 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 55 | But you touched me on the cheek . |
| 56 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
| 57 | Looking from one to the other , she asked slowly , ‘ You followed me from the ferry ? ’ |
| 58 | I know , you hit me on the head . |
| 59 | And that went in very quick on the end for you shoved it into the neep |
| 60 | Perhaps you pulled her by the ankles , dragging her head beneath the water ? |