Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] you [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 2 | Or whether you saw it at all . |
| 3 | Or whether you scared him after to death ! |
| 4 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 5 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 6 | and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off . |
| 7 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 8 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 9 | And when you brought it for your cattle like the highland parkway making whisky . |
| 10 | And when you treated it as a function of a function you get that that thing inside there was the function |
| 11 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 12 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 13 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |