Example sentences of "you [vb past] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well on the committee you dealt with com you met once a week on a Wednesday . |
| 2 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 3 | Well you got nearly a mile to walk when he gets to the station . |
| 4 | ‘ You got here a week ago , you 'd 've cooked . ’ |
| 5 | Oh , you got quite a variety of foods . |
| 6 | Well you got quite a lot out of being able to evaluate . |
| 7 | You , you mentioned also a bit once , when I came before , about the erm the , the lock for the cricket ground . |
| 8 | But after all , ’ he added , in self-excuse , ‘ you fantasised quite a lot of things about Sergei and me , in the novels . ’ |
| 9 | So you played quite a bit in the classics during training . |
| 10 | Yes , oh yes , you learnt quite a lot and er much depended on er the teacher , of course , they were n't as bound as er teachers had been . |
| 11 | But erm you learnt quite a lot , and you learnt the basics very , very thoroughly . |
| 12 | And you spent quite a bit of it , that , say on sweets . |
| 13 | And in fact , it 's been a that 's why you needed quite a bit doing to it . |
| 14 | You went twice a day in those days to the mothers and babies . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you took rather a lot for granted , did n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sorry erm as far as the schools are concerned you had presumably a lot of contact I mean as part of the national curriculum is if if you like is to build contact with the community and the schools . |
| 17 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 18 | And essentially in nineteen sixty eight sixty nine legislation changed in this country and up to that time what you had to do if you had a removals firm you had actually a licence . |
| 19 | Fareda , I 'd like to come back to you because you said that you had quite a bit of information from people currently in Kuwait . |
| 20 | you you told us that you had quite a lot meat and veg and things . |
| 21 | And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know |
| 22 | and then you had like a pantry |
| 23 | No I was n't there I was in Switzerland but it was quite nice because they had carte blanche they have some preview of it you know you had like a band playing |
| 24 | So when you said about a second rate citizen yeah ? |
| 25 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |