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
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