Example sentences of "you [vb past] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windeler went on , ‘ Before your force withdrew , you checked on a number of the valley farms , is that right ? ’ |
| 2 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 3 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 4 | If you got into a punch-up in the office , that was the zeitgeist , it was kinda mandatory to be incapable and falling over . |
| 5 | You got into a fight the other night . |
| 6 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 7 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 8 | " But you lived in a brothel , " Jane said , disbelief in her voice , sitting down on the edge of the bed and rubbing vigorously at her hair . |
| 9 | Once upon a time you had a dream — that you lived in a world of simple market forces where everything or everybody had a price or value . |
| 10 | Killum or Killom means ‘ at the springs ’ and in a chalky area the presence of surface water is a boon , unless you lived in a house which flooded every time the springs rose . |
| 11 | You know the kind that if you lived in a house which had got an uneven floor when you opened the door the wardrobe falls over towards you . |
| 12 | Perhaps you do n't remember , but you were staying with Helen the year before you qualified as a vet . ’ |
| 13 | because I can remember , and it 's not that long ago for goodness sake , that if you qualified as a nurse , and will probably tell even the same story to an extent , there was no problem about a job , you were a certified nurse , bang . |
| 14 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 15 | At the meeting of the Transportation Committee on 5 October 1992 you asked for a report on bus services in the Kirknewton area . |
| 16 | Last time you fought against a pile of junk mail to open your front door did you wonder how the bank , catalogue company or film processor got your name and address ? |
| 17 | If we spend up to what you described as a capping level , then I 'm absolutely convinced we will not be capped . |
| 18 | No because you di , you made two , you made two mi , what you did on this one over here you moved into a space first and then jumped . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 20 | Above all I do n't want to worry you : I 'd feel like hell on earth if you crashed on a mission and I thought it might be my fault , even to the tiniest degree . |
| 21 | ‘ It used to be a tradition that when you drove past a gang of kids they would wave and you would wave back , ’ says Lt Watts . |
| 22 | It is almost summer , high time you decamped for a fortnight . |
| 23 | A church that stood upon a grassy hill and to which you mounted by a flight of steep stone stairs . |
| 24 | In the end you came to a door that said ( and this was equally inexplicable ) 3D . |
| 25 | And then the table where the girls sat on their typewriters , then there was a on this on a hall , you came into a hall . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ You came as a blackmailer , to try and extort money to support your drug addiction . ’ |
| 27 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 28 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 29 | ‘ You came in a car ? ’ |
| 30 | Can you remember any games that you played as a child ? |