Example sentences of "you [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was the one opportunity and all you got was one pervert ringing you up . |
| 2 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 3 | So the thickness of the neck you got was likely to depend on whether José had a hangover that day or not . |
| 4 | So the thickness of the neck you got was likely to depend on whether José had a hangover that day or not . |
| 5 | " Such entreaty would n't be answered if what you sought was likely to bring you pain . " |
| 6 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 7 | He said , erm , well what would you think was reasonable ? |
| 8 | And why do you think was that ? |
| 9 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 10 | Er you also basically er the first thing you did was erm the second thing you mentioned was these two hurdles , the third thing you did was check when you was to proceed . |
| 11 | ‘ But , Madam , if you e'er was such , |
| 12 | The price you paid was fair enough , but the net result is that if the business fails now it 's you who 'll stand the loss . ’ |
| 13 | How much of what you read was familiar to you-terminology , people , places , general developments ? |
| 14 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 15 | There was two thousand , we er you know was more than a union , it was it was a first class Friendly Society as well and it was friendly . |
| 16 | But when evergreens you know was bonny white evergreen you know |
| 17 | The method of killing which you employed was terrible indeed . |
| 18 | Everywhere you looked was blue . |
| 19 | You did what you thought was best under the circumstances . |
| 20 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 21 | I wonder if you have ever been in that awful position of facing what you thought was certain death . |
| 22 | M&B the first antibiotic which you thought was one word , emmonbee . |
| 23 | The important thing was to do what you thought was right , leaving other people to do the same . |
| 24 | ‘ You did what you thought was right . |
| 25 | But be prepared for the unexpected — what you thought was impossible may not be ! |
| 26 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 27 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 28 | Do you think what you did was unlawful ? |
| 29 | To pull out of the Sunday Madness gig when you did was lower than low . |
| 30 | A debt you did n't know you had was best not argued with . |