Example sentences of "you [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You failed miserably to mention the excellent selection of scalable fonts that come with PagePlus . |
| 2 | So you tried then to do something to use up the rest of the developer . |
| 3 | Well you would be would n't you if you 'd nowhere to sleep on the night ? |
| 4 | You came here to see Worsdale 's work ; the least I can do is show it to you . ’ |
| 5 | You came here to watch the Lady Eleanor and make sure she did nothing foolish , such as escape or cause scandal at the English court . |
| 6 | ‘ Stand at ease , Piper , ’ remarked Charlie , a big grin on his face , then he went serious and remarked slowly , ‘ You have done what you came here to do , Piper ; you piped Lovat 's brigade ashore and now I would like you to return to Achnacarry with me this evening . |
| 7 | You were only a child then , but now you 're a woman , and this time I 'm going to take what you came here to give me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You came here to meet me . |
| 9 | ‘ She had everyone standing out here at night , and they unfurled a banner across the whole street saying , ‘ If you came here to buy drugs , go home . ’ |
| 10 | You 're saying that you came here to help me , but why would you do that ? |
| 11 | ‘ You came here to find your brother . |
| 12 | When you came upstairs to say father had collapsed , did n't you think it was very odd , the way Francis rushed down without a word ? ’ |
| 13 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 14 | It would appear , Sir Richard , that you lusted after your brother 's wife as well as his riches ; that while he was alive you committed adultery with her and , with each other , you plotted together to carry out his murder and lay the blame on Brampton . ’ |
| 15 | For duck you needed really to go north , to the big lakes around Alexandria and , of course , for big game you had to go south . |
| 16 | Then , turning and looking into her tight , white countenance , he added and quietly , ‘ On second thoughts , I think it would be better if you decided definitely to make arrangements to live elsewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , you did right to call me , ’ he said , to Rachaela . |
| 18 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 19 | You did well to spot it . |
| 20 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |
| 21 | You had best to call them generally man by man according to the Scrip . |
| 22 | So you had studiously to act out a charade of affection and natural ease until , like politicians , you had settled the issue in private , one way or the other . |
| 23 | You had only to wait . |
| 24 | There was a time , I think , in the late sixties , when erm the education service did itself very little good by going along with the general mythology that you had only to put more money into the schools to service , to solve all social problems . |
| 25 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 26 | • You had only to watch Curtis Strange shoot that all-time record 62 at St. Andrews in a Dunhill Cup to realise golf has become a whole new ball game . |
| 27 | You had only to say you wished to go back to the car — ’ |
| 28 | And , as if to emphasise the difficulties that any prevention programme has to face , you had only to walk through any exit to find little groups enjoying a quiet cigarette . |
| 29 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 30 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |