Example sentences of "you [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose if you work at night you got to sleep during the day . |
| 2 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 3 | So you got to park on the road . |
| 4 | You got to get around the ego . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You did it , you did it very well , yes , but you needed , I know you were going to , you needed to say at the end , is this important to you , or is this something you would like on your policy . |
| 9 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 10 | You started to work on the insides you know the got er th you varnished and sandpapered the insides of wardrobes , that 's where you started . |
| 11 | That was really seen as the crowning achievement , keeping your garden clear of weeds — not what you managed to grow in the space . |
| 12 | ‘ How is it that you managed to get behind the wheel , anyway ? ’ she enquired , her voice curt . |
| 13 | Mind you , there 's been a great pause on it while you went to see to the baby . |
| 14 | It was in London that you could live anonymously , could create your own ambience , could deliberately fabricate the persona which you chose to present to the world . |
| 15 | And you took to do with the things that was happening in the Cooperative . |
| 16 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 17 | Stanford could turn you out an impeccable paragraph on any subject you liked to name at the drop of a hat . |
| 18 | We were talking earlier , and I understand you liked to ride at the weekends , and you 're often competing on your horse , er , ha , if you were to have a fall , and erm , you had a back injury , or erm , you sustained an injury that would you keep you from work for a substantial amount of time , er , how would you feel , would you be able to pay your premiums ? |
| 19 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ You said last night you preferred to proceed with the notion of Vargas being a traitor . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Did you have something you wished to communicate to the girl , Caroline ? ’ |
| 22 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 23 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 24 | erm if you had to go on the road it would have been different . |
| 25 | Once you were promoted you had to go to the bar on first entering the mess and drink a pint of whatever drink you designated without taking your lips from the glass . |
| 26 | do n't you remember you had to go to the housing office |
| 27 | You , you were n't auto sort of automatically allowed out till ten you had to go to the office and say , please may I stay out till ten . |
| 28 | If a docker , you got to help the dockers down the hold , if you ai n't got the crane driving to do , you had to go in the warehouse if there ai n't nothing to do . |
| 29 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 30 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |