Example sentences of "you [vb past] be " in BNC.

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1 Ye had been appointed Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference ( the government 's largely ceremonial opinion-gathering forum ) in April [ see p. 38145 ] .
2 It 's just a pity that all that effort you expended was wasted really .
3 ‘ You are correct , Taplow died at Smithfield but the man you met was not him . ’
4 They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one !
5 They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one !
6 You 've got ta do thirty-six on one floor , thirty-six on another floor , and the next thing that you got is all the information together where all you 've got to do is put that , lots of those together and it 's er , it 's er a shuffling around procedure , is n't it ?
7 So it might be a good idea to jot them in you got Is there a shop of souvenirs around here ?
8 You got be an hour , an hour and a half arter you were home afore you could leave them .
9 and you 'll you got be a bit more careful more there 's more to life than being cut out .
10 ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’
11 ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’
12 He had to admit it — it was all very well hunting and growing things , but what you got was n't a patch on the food you found around humans .
13 You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week .
14 The furniture you got was just little bits and pieces you could get hold of , and you had to go into debt for it .
15 And all you got was a rotting mess .
16 So the thickness of the neck you got was likely to depend on whether José had a hangover that day or not .
17 So the thickness of the neck you got was likely to depend on whether José had a hangover that day or not .
18 But the actual answer you got was n't raising it was n't point three recurring , it was point nought three .
19 well that , that spring you got was too thick
20 All you got was the house , aye ?
21 And this was the one opportunity and all you got was one pervert ringing you up .
22 It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement .
23 This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again .
24 " Such entreaty would n't be answered if what you sought was likely to bring you pain . "
25 Of all the proposals , the one that you made is the silliest .
26 The recordings you made were mainly smaller-scale pieces .
27 A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’
28 The point a lot of you made was that the course does seem to be very based on one text , the Arnold text and you 're quite , well you 're almost right about that .
29 Half past four you went home , you were five , six , six o'clock news , you liked to watch the six o'clock news so you sat down , had a bit of light tea , watched the six o'clock news , read the paper , the next big decision you made was whether to watch Coronation Street or not .
30 There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own .
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