Example sentences of "you [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 3 | If you mentioned them to a colleague or — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He feels as if you played him for a fool . |
| 5 | And you measured it with a protractor , |
| 6 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 7 | Depends what the what the a , I mean if you 've got an ammeter set to milliamps and you stuck it across a battery |
| 8 | You killed her in a fashion marked by a chilling degree of control and concentration . ’ |
| 9 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 10 | Erm a steel pan , if you hit it with a hammer , it 'll dent . |
| 11 | ‘ You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’ |
| 12 | If you was greedy and went for a shilling you lost it after a week or two you see ? |
| 13 | and you treated it as a function of a function . |
| 14 | And when you treated it as a function of a function you get that that thing inside there was the function |
| 15 | You knew it for a fact . |
| 16 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 17 | You saw me as a challenge — a little harder than the rest , perhaps , but there for the taking , nevertheless . |
| 18 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |
| 19 | And , as one of my brothers said , if you took it for a walk it panted . |
| 20 | Her boss told Hilary : ‘ You took it like a man , although you 're the wrong shape . ’ |
| 21 | You presented me with a daughter lately it 's high time you had a present yourself . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah I know , you bought it with a jug of water |
| 23 | Positive , negative , and the thing at the end is a Z , of sorts All scores above the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect them to be positive . |
| 24 | All scores below the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect to be negative . |
| 25 | If the parka also has USS Ticondcroga printed across the left breast and you won it in a backgammon game on San Francisco 's Pier 39 , then you have enough kudos to carry it off . |
| 26 | It does n't seem that long since you had him as a puppy |
| 27 | He emerged from the frostbitten earth as mysteriously and magically as the transitory rare flowers ; and he continued to move mysteriously — you left him under a coat and he reappeared in a drawer — all that winter . |
| 28 | Mr Smith looked at some of the papers on his desk for a moment , " … ah yes , Mr Partridge had to go to hospital for a tetanus injection and stitches after you struck him with a shovel . |
| 29 | You wanted me on a string so you could play cat to my mouse … |
| 30 | Last time I let you make friends , you chained me to a table . |