Example sentences of "you [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such a clear overview and a balanced feminist perspective in your History of the World NI 196 , how is it possible that you failed to mention the witch burning of the 16th and 17th centuries , when nine million women , men and children were executed ? |
| 2 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 3 | In the first section ( music ) you failed to answer the part of the question that asked why the particular form used was appropriate , rather than the other forms available . |
| 4 | And what happened if you failed to make the grade ? |
| 5 | The only thing is , you got to watch the tide , because — Good afternoon , sir ! |
| 6 | So when you got to see the Designer 's scale model of the studio sets you knew that if you wanted to put an actor in one spot , in mid-shot , camera one would have to be precisely in such-and-such position with one lens , camera two would have to be precisely in another position with another lens , and so on . |
| 7 | and if you got to change the wheel or anything you got a , there 's some clips , you undo the clips down the driver and the back hand comes off with the wheel |
| 8 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |
| 9 | This aspect of the much prized composite quality of ‘ experience ’ takes time and work : ‘ You got to know the district . |
| 10 | These places were all villages really , you got to know the neighbours , met people at parties and , given that you were a middle-class professional person , there was a limited number of like people it was possible to meet . |
| 11 | You got to know the people . |
| 12 | If a docker , you got to help the dockers down the hold , if you ai n't got the crane driving to do , you had to go in the warehouse if there ai n't nothing to do . |
| 13 | She wondered if she was wrong about what you got playing the Moebius Strip . |
| 14 | When you invited me to stay here , I did n't realise you planned to collect the rent in kind . |
| 15 | He might do , if you agreed to reverse the charges . ’ |
| 16 | You promised to take the oath and divide your winnings with me for a secret ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 18 | You tried to stay the man that you had been , |
| 19 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 20 | But , for most purposes , you would in practice be wasting your time if you tried to understand the behaviour of the whole computer at either of those levels . |
| 21 | However you tried to measure the particle , the uncertainty in its position , times the uncertainty in its speed , would always be greater than a certain minimum amount . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Allan Ahlberg says : ‘ In the past , a lot of children 's books seemed to be the work of talented illustrators whose pictures looked brilliant framed in a gallery , but when you tried to read the book , there was nothing there , because the words started as a coat-hanger to hang pictures on . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 25 | RO You helped to design the Salzburg theatre . |
| 26 | just down this one by oh of course you drove to get the cot from there did n't you ? |
| 27 | But I think probably the most disturbing was some of the poor people in , in psychiatry erm and er that was very hard work because you seemed to take the problems home with you and you kept thinking about some of the conditions that people had . |
| 28 | And you told me that you 'd destroyed the picture . ’ |
| 29 | Because you 'd stopped the Premeren and how are you getting on with those ? |
| 30 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |