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

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1 A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation .
2 Oh customers or I thought you said gostermers
3 Where she left you . ’
4 Probably made rabbit pie or something did you ?
5 In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) .
6 That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest .
7 Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot .
8 Or what had you in mind ?
9 So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ?
10 did you sort of play table tennis with them , or what did you do ?
11 ( In practice , questions like this may be replaced by the mayor was what ? or what did you say the mayor was ? , but these will cover the point which we are about to make just as well . )
12 What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished .
13 ‘ Look , if you do n't want to tell me who you are , or what gave you the horrors , then do n't .
14 Accept that no-one forced you to believe it .
15 I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year .
16 But I swear to you , nor Farquhar nor I blinded you .
17 Er Sadly , although I sent you a letter with suggestions for discussion I forgot to keep a copy of it for myself .
18 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
19 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
20 Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’
21 ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’
22 ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right .
23 my pain is that I knew you
24 ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’
25 And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’
26 ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’
27 ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you
28 ‘ My father 's old housekeeper — he and she grew old together — has a daughter who needs to make money ; , she lives in Nile Street , and if you were to say that I sent you , she might well be glad to put you up till it is time for you to go to Oxford . ’
29 Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about .
30 Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good .
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