Example sentences of "and you [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said we needed a weekend , real time , for both of us , and you said give it time . |
| 2 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 3 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
| 4 | You had been swilling food into your guts and making the small talk of camp survival , and you had lost him from your memory … |
| 5 | There was the Youth Hostel if you were desperate , he said , but they wondered where your back-pack was and you had to say you 'd put it in the Left Luggage at the station . |
| 6 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 7 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 8 | And you had to walk it ? |
| 9 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 10 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 11 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 12 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 13 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 14 | So you we wo n't pay it automatically and if you do n't claim it and you 've missed it that 's I 'm afraid hard luck . |
| 15 | And you 've missed it ! |
| 16 | And you 've kept it in period , which is such a smart move ! ’ |
| 17 | One shower of rain and you 've lost it anyway . |
| 18 | And you 've broken mine too ! |
| 19 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 20 | And you 've made it so . ’ |
| 21 | All you had to do here was to move back a few steps and you 've made it much more interesting in the foreground . |
| 22 | You wanted to make your point and you 've made it . |
| 23 | They say well we 've offered you three blocks and you 've turned them all down and you say well yes but you 've offered us blocks not not |
| 24 | You 'd decided to go into nursing , and you 've said you 'd always wanted |
| 25 | Brigadier , evidently and we 've heard lots and lots of these stories , and you 've said you think it 's the occasional example but you 're doing all you can to stamp it out , but evidently the Army is a haven for bullies , sadists and rapists . |
| 26 | ‘ Tell you what , Joe , ’ said Annie , ‘ you 'ave n't got new stuff there , but you 'ave n't got rubbish , either , and you 've 'ad me best attention as well . |
| 27 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 28 | ‘ And you 've given me the impression you wanted to see me , too . ’ |
| 29 | Which you and you 've given it an extra name of mumsy S L P . |
| 30 | And you 've taught her not to savage the children . |