Example sentences of "you [vb past] it [prep] [art] [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 yes , oh yes , you got it from the chemist . |
3 | You got it in the garage ? magic yeah |
4 | Very glad to see you made it on the list , James . |
5 | ‘ Oh , you made it to the Gala then ? ’ |
6 | you found it on the bus did n't ya ? |
7 | You found it in the end ? |
8 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
9 | And you measured it with a protractor , |
10 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
11 | You dug up a spadeful of earth , but by the time you threw it on the rampart it was nothing but muddy water . |
12 | ‘ You landed it on the ground ! |
13 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
14 | Depends what the what the a , I mean if you 've got an ammeter set to milliamps and you stuck it across a battery |
15 | 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 . |
16 | And you knocked it on the edge of a table ? |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Erm a steel pan , if you hit it with a hammer , it 'll dent . |
22 | And that went in very quick on the end for you shoved it into the neep |
23 | The presentation of the Statement of Commitment to any group of people is n't the easiest of tasks to perform , but the gentle and personal way you handled it in the sections for which you had a responsibility was very well done , as we knew it would be . |
24 | If you was greedy and went for a shilling you lost it after a week or two you see ? |
25 | . Now that 's it 's interesting what Joanne said that you you lost it in the middle somewhere , yeah ? |
26 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
27 | and you treated it as a function of a function . |
28 | And when you treated it as a function of a function you get that that thing inside there was the function |
29 | You knew it for a fact . |
30 | And you rubbed it into the grain and you sandpapered that and it left white |