Example sentences of "you [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 How many of them have you heard used in this way ? 2 Which , if any , are used in you area ? 3 Do you ever use any of them ? 4 Are there any other words people in your area use in this way ? |
| 2 | ‘ What if you got posted ? ’ |
| 3 | But now I instinctively thought , Oh no you did n't Ollie , you did n't resign , you got sacked . |
| 4 | Er you know but you see , conservative won the election and because what they did was , if you went on strike they they paid you off , you got sacked and you just did n't get any money . |
| 5 | You got covered in , I saw you did . |
| 6 | It might be two or three shillings perhaps five shillings , it all depends how much your you got done . |
| 7 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Tell them you got shot up by enemy aircraft , ’ Woolley said . |
| 9 | You got fed regularly and women waited on you and asked you how you felt . |
| 10 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 11 | It was just going from one to the others , if you got fed up you just , when you left the school you put your name in them all and |
| 12 | Now you got fed this morning Patch . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's time you got rid of that lunatic Great Dane , ’ Nanny shouted above the din . |
| 14 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |
| 15 | If you got rid of it — for example , by using the word astronaut instead — it would be easier to conceptualise a woman in space . |
| 16 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 17 | Do you remember when you got rid of one of your armchairs last year or the year before , they bought two new fireside chairs and one of the armchairs nearly had it |
| 18 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you got rid of it , Lyn , ’ said the unfriendly friend . |
| 20 | ‘ Is that why you got rid of him — because you found out what he was up to ? ’ |
| 21 | Oh the the boy that you got rid of , yeah . |
| 22 | But it 'd save a lot of hard work if you got rid of quite a lot of it . |
| 23 | Course , you got rid of the fours did n't you ? |
| 24 | You got invoiced for it as well . |
| 25 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
| 26 | ‘ Success is n't the most important thing , it 's got most to do with where you live , which team you support , or where you used to live before you got moved out … you go back there , support your old team . ’ |
| 27 | When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out . |
| 28 | Now you can quit the heat of the kitchen and swan around on those yachts of yours you got stashed around the world . ’ |
| 29 | Did you know that NCT had so much to offer after the birth ( breastfeeding counselling , post natal support and a network of other mums ) before you got involved ? |
| 30 | Erm you , you got involved through , through the Guilds because of , of your mother 's |