Example sentences of "[vb past] you [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 2 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 3 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So what made you desert the sinking ship before the party was over ? |
| 5 | Was this what erm led you to join the Labour Party ? |
| 6 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 7 | Yesterday , we asked you to name the Hindu God of Love . |
| 8 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 9 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 10 | Right , I er , I heard you say the right answer , so I was obviously incorrect . |
| 11 | Yes , I heard you , yes , I heard you say the other day , and also did read in the press , where you 've been quoted , Councillor Warby , that you would build various by-passes and no doubt you will be putting , I have n't yet heard any amendments to the capital goal . |
| 12 | I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too . |
| 13 | Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste . |
| 14 | I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Thought you said the other day you felt sick in a Bentley , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 16 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 17 | And your father and I thought you did the right thing about David . |
| 18 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
| 19 | I thought you liked the good old I can have the other bit then ? |
| 20 | Intact , the collection enabled you to study the entire element of the Cubist style ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Did ye bring the old bucket ? ’ she asked Nellie . |
| 22 | ‘ Did ye get the little bottles ? ’ |
| 23 | Again he heard the strong Irish voice ring out — ‘ Did ye get the little bottles ? ’ — and knew that however cosy it might seem in imagination he would never be one of the party hurried through the customs to the English or Irish or Scottish College . |
| 24 | Where , where did you go the other day ? . |
| 25 | Did you go the last one ? |
| 26 | What did you miss the other day ? |
| 27 | ‘ And did you tell the foreign gentleman that her husband was going mad with jealousy ? ’ |
| 28 | Did you tip the whole bottle on ‘ em ? |
| 29 | Did you lock the back door ? |
| 30 | What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished . |