Example sentences of "you [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean cos if you got to know someone they might be might be muggers , or you might get in , you know et to know somebody else and they might be a big crime organization . |
| 2 | You tried to convince me it had been misplaced . |
| 3 | Sir Emmanuel was not an easy man to work for and you had to watch what you said . |
| 4 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 5 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 6 | He could spin a yarn , and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt . |
| 7 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 8 | And you had to make what we called straw . |
| 9 | you see , you just think it 's or have you experienced that you were , first you had a bad or a good impression and then you had to change which I used to do very often . |
| 10 | You had to have what they gave you and it was pretty revolting from what I remember . |
| 11 | You had to know what you were doing in those days ’ . |
| 12 | Whether it be a union branch meeting or any other branch meeting you had to be there and you had to know what you 're talking about . |
| 13 | Oh yes oh yes certainly knew you had to know what you were doing with it you know . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean you wrote to tell us you were coming ? ’ |
| 15 | No if you wanted to do it you volunteered that 's all . |
| 16 | And , my mum would go er oh look you wanted to know what it is ! |