Example sentences of "and you [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I know from my own personal experience that if you come fly from New York to London and you eat a meal in a restaurant or in a hotel in New York and then the next day you eat one in London , you do find that the services is much slower , for example . |
| 2 | yeah , I think so , and you brought a bottle anyway . |
| 3 | And you had a bit of rage or duster or something , you 'd got your slate filled , you 'd just wiped it up , and dried it , start again . |
| 4 | Play ‘ Soul Makossa ’ by Manu Dibango and ‘ Wild Safari ’ by Barrabas back to back and you had a hybrid of rock , jazz and Afro-funk . |
| 5 | and eat it , and you had a cream cake |
| 6 | We used to have a pick , er er that was a blade that had a slot in it and you had a pick shaft with a box and er a an iron box on the top . |
| 7 | ‘ And you had a cup with him , perhaps ? ’ |
| 8 | and you had a talk on drugs , you know , about things , I think it makes people curious . |
| 9 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 10 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 11 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 12 | And you had a load more for you birthday |
| 13 | Well that was one would stand against the wall and about four would get down like that and you had a team say of five . |
| 14 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 15 | And you saw a cat as well did you ? |
| 16 | So if you did n't get serial correlation and you estimated a model like this you 'd be a bit curious and wonder why right . |
| 17 | You mentioned environment , Councillor and you 've a Government white paper , a common inheritance . |
| 18 | Add to all this the heady brew of an ‘ unchaperoned ’ building plus adjacent changing rooms and a warm , soapy shower — and you 've a recipe for disaster . |
| 19 | Add to that a smooth ‘ knife through butter ’ gearchange and responsive brakes ( with anti-lock from the 2.0-litre engine size upwards ) and you 've a recipe for smooth , undemanding driving . |
| 20 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 21 | The next time you are along the river and you spot a shoal of chub , or an individual fish , see how close you can get before they , or it , take fright . |
| 22 | Next time you 're outdoors and you spot a caterpillar , watch how it uses its legs and mouth to eat whole leaves systematically , strip by strip . |
| 23 | You 're walking down the street during the tourist season and you spot a group of Japanese . |
| 24 | ‘ And you kept a promise — to a junkie . ’ |
| 25 | And you got a shock off them last time so I 'm not doing it . |
| 26 | And you got a girl , yeah ? |
| 27 | And you got a bit more room . |
| 28 | And you through these courses and you got a certificate when you come out which er some of the said to us , a fully qualified member of a , so these advantages were open to us then you see ? |
| 29 | And you got a company car as a benefit as well ? |
| 30 | Or , ‘ Was n't it a scream that afternoon we went to the matinée at the Court and you got a fit of the hiccoughs . ’ |