Example sentences of "[conj] you [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , are you paid to do this , or you got a problem with this man ? ’ |
| 3 | Or you joined a sports club . |
| 4 | And I also know that you spent a summer on rather a long walk . |
| 5 | ‘ That you took a job in the ski-shop at Soldeu because you were ‘ resting ’ , as you people call it when you 're out of work — ’ |
| 6 | I heard a certain story that you got a girl pregnant ? |
| 7 | It was all right if you went away to Lynn or anything like that — so that you got a week or two in . |
| 8 | When you were er in the unions and you were a shop steward , did you find that you got a lot of people working in branch meetings ? |
| 9 | Well , German evacu evacuees , but it 's all condensed so that you got a lot of information . |
| 10 | What is interesting is that you had a kind of real intellectual respect for intellectual content and expertise and professionalism in a way that previous programmers perhaps have n't . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , Mrs Figgis-Hewett , I gather that you had a disagreement with Sir Thomas . |
| 12 | Quietly D'Arcy said : ‘ Why did you never mention that you had a wife and child when I was asking about relatives or friends who might be in danger from these Iranians ? ’ |
| 13 | Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had |
| 14 | ‘ I understand you also told George that you had a rehearsal in Rotherhithe the night before you tried to reform the Intelligence Service by force majeure . |
| 15 | ‘ You said on the phone that you had a problem . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , I thought that you had a partner . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Did n't I hear you mention that you had a brother ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He mentioned in passing that you had a lot of female visitors , that 's all . |
| 19 | ‘ I was told that you had a motorbike and sidecar . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ the media , the advertisers , the politicians told you , the American people that you had a attention span of between three and four minutes . |
| 21 | In the sense that er you say that you had a camera club |
| 22 | If a landowner suddenly challenged your right to continue canoeing on a favourite stretch of water how would you prove that you had a right to do so ? |
| 23 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Amin , my friend , did you not mention once that you had a relative in the Immigration Service here ? ’ he asked him . |
| 25 | ‘ Well ’ — he turned and looked towards the window — ‘ I noticed as I passed that you had a box of Havana cigars , the … the Excepcionales . |
| 26 | These are all responses which were highly suitable in prehistoric times when events required either that you ran away as fast as you could or that you had a surge of energy to help you fight your way out of a difficult situation as ferociously as possible ( fight or flight behaviour ) . |
| 27 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 28 | And it 's being put to you that not being it 's been put to you straight , you 're in effect lying about guns , that you had a shotgun . |
| 29 | ‘ You mentioned that you had a half-brother , ’ she murmured , ‘ and that he 'd be coming into Woodline Design . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You imagined that you touched a hand , ’ I said . |