Example sentences of "[vb past] you [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 2 | I only found you this morning , and reckoning by the tide you could n't have been there long . |
| 3 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 4 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 5 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 6 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 7 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 9 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 10 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 11 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 12 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 13 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 14 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 15 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 16 | I told you this kind of mingling always ends in tears . ’ |
| 17 | The child seemed so lost in thought she hardly looked where she was walking , and when they reached the gate of Matilda 's home , Miss Honey said , ‘ You had better forget everything I told you this afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Just pray by reciting what I told you this morning , ’ the mother persuaded her . |
| 19 | ’ You must have been furious , ’ I added , ’ when he told you this morning why he 'd picked you up . ’ |
| 20 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 21 | Oh well , I told you another time then ! |
| 22 | Lucy said with a hint of triumph , ‘ I told you another car would come along soon . ’ |
| 23 | If somebody told you some nigger boxer from Loovul , Kentucky would become better known than Jesus Christ , you 'd tell ‘ em , ‘ You crazy . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 25 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 26 | You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning . |
| 27 | I envied you that day the way I 'd never envied any other man ; just for having her beside you . |
| 28 | I asked you that night because I could n't go on not knowing one way or the other . |
| 29 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 30 | That got you all going did n't it , arf arf . |