Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Stronger than you saw it in church . |
| 7 | ‘ So you brought them in person . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , I know where the erm the delicatessen is , so you got them from there and not the other shop , cos |
| 9 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So you told him about Estabrook ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 12 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’ |
| 14 | You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life . |
| 15 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 16 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 17 | She hesitated before adding , ‘ I doubt if Anna would have to get you drunk afore you did it to her . ’ |
| 18 | Until you told me about Amy , I did n't guess , that either . ’ |
| 19 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 20 | Gesner decided she was about twenty-two or -three , younger than Ingrid , who looked quite good until you saw her against a really pretty girl , like this one . |
| 21 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 24 | I mean , i if he , if you said something like that to him and he went away and he did n't turn up for two or three days , you would never live with yourself . |
| 25 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 26 | I do n't know why you would want to kill them , but I 'm sure that you would if you had them in your hands . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd be questioned fast enough at the gate-house , seal or no seal , ’ said Harry gloomily , ‘ if you had me with you . ’ |
| 28 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 29 | If you had one like it , you must have lost it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I just came to see if you had something for dinner , ’ she said . |