Example sentences of "[vb past] you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to the menus listed you may consume each day :
2 ‘ You promised you 'd pay me . ’
3 You promised you 'd hurt me , that you wanted everything .
4 ‘ You promised you 'd stay away from him , ’ she scolded .
5 You promised you 'd take me . ’
6 And we 'll see what they have to say and if you feel so moved you can ring back and shout at them Katherine .
7 But when I found you 'd run away from me again , it nearly sent me crazy . ’
8 ‘ I know , ’ said Marian , smiling , ‘ it was the horses … their faces when they found you 'd cut loose the horses . ’
9 If you concentrated you could make them all line up , in 3-D ; and then it would all just collapse and be jiggling spots again .
10 I really believed you could take that way out .
11 If only Italy believed you could get ahead without it , simply by doing things well .
12 Afterwards the Personnel Officer who interviewed you will give you some feedback .
13 ‘ I ‘ oped you 'd grow up to be more like Rebecca Salmon , ’ he used to say .
14 ‘ If Dobson had been any more seriously injured you 'd have found yourself in a cell by now . ’
15 The one who I told you used to keep running to me for help . ’
16 We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job .
17 ‘ I assumed you 'd do something of the sort .
18 I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night .
19 I just I just assumed you 'd give us that size for fifty quid .
20 ‘ As you were working and you run a business , I assumed you must leave him with a babyminder . ’
21 When a car went by she 'd simply track it with her eyes and remain fairly unruffled ; stirred you might say , but not shaken .
22 Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves .
23 As you passed you could hear them murmuring ‘ Ya Allah !
24 ‘ I presumed you 'd want to . ’
25 Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it .
26 And the man who attacked you should feel shame , not you .
27 Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest .
28 Looking at it , Nutty realized you could use the Smiths ' bath without the Smiths knowing .
29 As you become more experienced you will begin to appreciate that a coin can in fact sound slightly different when detected in varying types of ground .
30 Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint ,
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