Example sentences of "you [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's the trouble with Christmas , I said to Rob , in a way , I said I hope when I get to mum and dad 's age I wo n't expect my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I 'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere |
| 2 | In fact I see from the note that accompanied the birthday card ( thank you ) that it seemed a particularly happy visit this time , and that you planned to come home in June ! |
| 3 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 4 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 5 | Erm you seemed to go straight from sort of the , the sociability side into , into a statement of purpose erm and then went back to er how did you come to do business with Friends Provident . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , it is rather bad luck for you that you happened to come here on one of our meatless days . ’ |
| 7 | And as you loved to linger late into the twilight , |
| 8 | They were n't sheep , every nome could think for itself , and when you started to think hard about sudden darkness and mysterious humming noises , panicking seemed a logical idea . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a pity you bothered to come home at all , darling , ’ said Mrs. Mounce . |
| 10 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 11 | You were on piece work you got paid by the rivet sort of thing , so you had to go ahead with it . |
| 12 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 13 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 14 | If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end . |
| 15 | No , you said you were there for half past five , because you had to get there before half past five in order to book it . |
| 16 | Well I was told you had to get there before half past five . |
| 17 | If you had to stay away on your two days you 're out with the trainer then we will pay you thirty pound a night subsistence . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’ |
| 19 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 20 | Or if you wanted to go home for your dinner and go back again in the afternoon , well , that was four and sixpence , which entitled you to do a Saturday journey . |
| 21 | Well , obviously , because you wanted to get away from us all … |
| 22 | ‘ You told me you wanted to get away from it all , to recharge your batteries after all the craziness . |
| 23 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 24 | Not only was the world into which you wanted to escape there for you to see but you also knew that it was a practical possibility to reach it . |