Example sentences of "[vb past] you [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You promised you 'd pay me . ’ |
| 2 | You promised you 'd hurt me , that you wanted everything . |
| 3 | You promised you 'd take me . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Afterwards the Personnel Officer who interviewed you will give you some feedback . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I assumed you 'd do something of the sort . |
| 8 | I just I just assumed you 'd give us that size for fifty quid . |
| 9 | ‘ As you were working and you run a business , I assumed you must leave him with a babyminder . ’ |
| 10 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 11 | As you passed you could hear them murmuring ‘ Ya Allah ! |
| 12 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 13 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 14 | I was always afraid that once Maria Luisa returned you would choose her rather than me . ’ |
| 15 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 16 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 17 | And there if you went you could see them : |
| 18 | The unknown artist had painted the fur with such a delicate brush you felt you might stroke it . |
| 19 | I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’ |
| 20 | So I felt you might have something of substance to add to Captain Trentham 's report . ’ |
| 21 | That I felt you should know your position if just such an event as this occurred ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose it was because you had such respect for him that you felt you could leave him in charge of the boarders tonight ? ’ |
| 23 | He was so full of life , it was — well , you felt you could light your cigarette off him . ’ |
| 24 | I knew you might work it out but I reasoned that if I did n't rush forward to explain all , you might catch the culprit first and never have to trouble me . ’ |
| 25 | So I knew you would eat it like that in an omelette . |
| 26 | She reddened , said : ‘ I knew you would think I had taken too much responsibility on myself . ’ |
| 27 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 28 | Ben said , ‘ I knew you would keep her . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I knew you would read it sooner or later . |
| 30 | We knew you would like us to help ourselves , and it does keep the crop growing , of course . |