Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Say , you 're much taller than they said you were , ’ exclaims Bridget Fonda as a pouting nymphet putting the moves on the diminutive star . |
| 4 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , perhaps the children 's home did n't have any boys , so they sent you a girl , ’ answered the station-master carelessly . |
| 6 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 7 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 8 | And I quickened then , of course you dare n't go to work those days when once they knew you was pregnant it was a case of out . |
| 9 | The bank would advance the money once they knew you were my legatee . " |
| 10 | ‘ So , is that how you earned your living , once they drove you out of the dorf ? |
| 11 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 12 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 13 | What if they offered you ten years ' redundant ? |
| 14 | If they saw you shooting Pinochet looking like a dictator they would stand in front of the camera . |
| 15 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 16 | ‘ No one could possibly call you Miss Frostbite if they saw you now , ’ he drawled and , moving round to sit at his desk , he handed her back her spectacles . |
| 17 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 18 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 20 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 21 | If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding . |
| 22 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 23 | If they knew you were friendly with someone , they would try their hardest to separate you . |
| 24 | Yeah , well an awful lot of this , this sort of waste disposal regulatory work and so on is , is very distantly removed from most consumers , and they would be rather surprised if they knew you were doing it . |
| 25 | ‘ Who 'd want undressing by a maid , ’ said Jessica , ‘ if they had you to do it for them ? |
| 26 | Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory . |
| 27 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 28 | If you worked in this country and for some reason and were starving you would n't care if they fed you . |
| 29 | There was a lot of support from your colleagues if you were in trouble for the very reason that they knew if they gave you help , you 'd automatically give it them . |
| 30 | If they gave you ten sums , you were allowed to get only one wrong . |