Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] you [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd to give the spiritual leadership of three villages to a man about whom you knew nothing , who appeared to have received minimum training , whose fitness no one seemed concerned to have established , whose career was n't even recorded . |
| 2 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 3 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 4 | You came to Kinghorn and the Queen graciously granted you an audience during which you disturbed her . |
| 5 | The area of my life for which you believed yourself a candidate is being taken care of quite adequately at the moment . |
| 6 | And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you . |
| 7 | ‘ You encouraged those people , then when you tired of them you discarded them . ’ |
| 8 | Although this was no fault of theirs you hated them for it . |
| 9 | He will probably get you to agree the opposite of what you thought you said , as he did with " considerable " . |
| 10 | Would that be a fair summary of what you told me ? … ’ |
| 11 | If you remember , you were quite specific in your requirements of what you wanted me to wear . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I doubled the value of what you gave me , ’ Nora told John . |
| 13 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 14 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 15 | Thank you for your letter of in which you notified me of your intention to accept a post with effect from . |
| 16 | The way in which you concluded your tribute by quoting from the most evocative of his works was truly fitting . |
| 17 | Your work is n't lost ; you just have to merge your styles in from the document in which you created them . |
| 18 | And my people , the men and maidservants who came running , he confined as you see , each in a glass bottle , and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me . |
| 19 | ( e ) If the text is an article in a journal or a chapter in an edited book or anthology , keep details about the collection in which you found it ; for a journal article , note the volume and issue number , and the page numbers on which the article appears . |
| 20 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 21 | Section one says , now for this everybody we 're thinking about the survey you did in the form room , from which you did your graphs , saying to people do you believe in god , have you visited a place of worship , is everyone clear about the piece of work we 're thinking about , speak to me . |
| 22 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 23 | A journalist would rarely turn you in whatever you claimed you had done . |
| 24 | It was very good of you to write such a long letter , and I was most interested in what you told me . |
| 25 | ‘ From what you told me . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 28 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He sounded interested enough from what you told me . |
| 30 | If you write the words ‘ Account Payee Only ’ between the crossings on the cheque , you can be certain that the cheque can only be banked by the person to whom you made it out . |