Example sentences of "you [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 2 | If you were important enough you came up to see him . |
| 3 | You were only a child then , but now you 're a woman , and this time I 'm going to take what you came here to give me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You came here to meet me . |
| 5 | You 're saying that you came here to help me , but why would you do that ? |
| 6 | It makes you want to win for them , makes you determined not to let them down . |
| 7 | ‘ We were disappointed that you decided not to join us , ’ she said , keeping her eyes intent on the table . |
| 8 | I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life . |
| 9 | ‘ You chose not to deny it because I had Maria Luisa on my arm . |
| 10 | You 've got to people tend to forget that erm things you find easy before you knew how to do them you found them quite hard |
| 11 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , you did right to call me , ’ he said , to Rachaela . |
| 13 | So you did n't to buy it . |
| 14 | You did well to spot it . |
| 15 | You had best to call them generally man by man according to the Scrip . |
| 16 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 17 | You had only to say you wished to go back to the car — ’ |
| 18 | When bits of them broke off you had only to plunge them into the earth and they grew into new cactuses . |