Example sentences of "[conj] you [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 2 | And that if you do n't pick them up and put them back where you got them from , they are still there two weeks later , and the house looks a bit of a tip . |
| 3 | That means where you got it from . |
| 4 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 5 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 6 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 7 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 8 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 9 | He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it . |
| 10 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 11 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 12 | We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ? |
| 13 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 14 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 15 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 16 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's just that you wrote one to another girl . |
| 18 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 20 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't find it particularly surprising that you allowed yourself to be seduced by her . |
| 23 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 24 | You said , I think , that you wanted me to ‘ check the condition of the pitch ’ and to ‘ make sure there 's a goal somewhere down the other end of the field ’ . |
| 25 | That you showed me on the plan ? |
| 26 | It is n't , you can put anything up you like , the only illegality is not applying after you 've done it , and when you apply after you 've done it , all we can do is consider the planning reasons , not the fact that you did it without permission . |
| 27 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 28 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 29 | Take it back to the shop that you bought it from and ask for your money back . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think you will , ’ said the Brownie Guider , ‘ but I do know for certain that you faced what to you was great danger with wonderful bravery . ’ |