Example sentences of "[vb past] you [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 2 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 3 | Mr Carman went on : ‘ Is it right Mr Mellor visited you on a social basis in the daytime without his wife ? ’ |
| 4 | Glasgow 's Taj Mahal transported you beyond the eastern sky to infinity . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 6 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 7 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 9 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 11 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 12 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 13 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 14 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 15 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 16 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 18 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 19 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 20 | And if , because of that , you never want to see me again — because , after all , I am no better than Havvie ; I simply raped you in a different way — ’ And , having lapsed into complete incoherence , he fell silent , not knowing what to say , except to add humbly , ‘ I think that your father approves of my suit , but that is no matter . |
| 21 | It was me who warned you of the Fascist element infiltrating at Danino 's . |
| 22 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 23 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 24 | Well I think Mr represented you on a previous occasion , that 's why I 'm asking you now . |
| 25 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 26 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 29 | At the end of the path another kissing gate brought you to the rough farm lane running past Milford House , owned by the Ware family , the Salisbury leather magnates . |
| 30 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |