Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] you [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But why , you 'd just forced the door open prior to arrest why do you wait until you got to the bedroom , indeed got the bedroom door open before shouting armed police .
2 To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences .
3 I agree with everything you 've said until you got to the last bit .
4 ‘ And what did you do when you came to the river ? ’
5 What exactly did you do when you went round the shops ?
6 How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon ?
7 Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds .
8 I mean if you did to the edge of the bath
9 If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment .
10 Look what happened when you lied about the bird . ’
11 ‘ I 'm sorry about what happened when you came to the house , ’ she said .
12 in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening
13 And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room .
14 I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ .
15 I wonder if you went to the industrial companies , and said look , have you got a a , a , a big lot of something and
16 But I think if you went for the figure as proposed by the H B F , you would be going actively against the regeneration statutory which is the erm the government 's policy .
17 I think before you spoke about the the the fact that erm what happened with the the that was erm .
18 He 'd have to risk the pipes making that queer noise they sometimes did when you turned on the tap .
19 ‘ You did make me laugh when you fell over the broomstick . ’
20 She confers immortality , as you 'd find if you fell in the river , and protects the hero 's soul .
21 ‘ I was being interrogated when you knocked on the wall .
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