Example sentences of "you [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , now , what you should have in front of you , is a recipe for successful learning , because what you 've got at the top , right , what you 've got at the top is something that you 've learnt , and you think you 're pretty good at it , and what you 've got in the middle is , how you got to be good at it , and what you 've got at the end , is what you gain from having it . |
| 2 | ‘ You got to be young for that . |
| 3 | You got to be f---ing joking . ’ |
| 4 | You got to be careful when the pavements are frosty cos you can slip and hurt yourself . |
| 5 | You got to be quick . |
| 6 | ‘ But you got to be ready for it . |
| 7 | It was n't doing any good , and the way to get results in this business is to remember when you 're dealing with smart people you got to be smart too . |
| 8 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 9 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 10 | erm it 's , it 's , like , like the , the clo closed questions , there was no real no real commitment er with , with the questions you were asking , you , you seemed to be afraid to ask them . |
| 11 | All of this is very unlikely , unless you happened to be lucky enough to attend a reasonably progressive school . |
| 12 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 14 | You lied about being able to sail . ’ |
| 15 | She said you needed to be uninvolved . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm glad you decided to be sensible . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The way you contrived to be alone with me , despite the supervision and monitoring . ’ |
| 18 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 19 | ‘ Is this also what you meant by being psychic ? ’ |
| 20 | send a message by telephone ( or telegram ) to … ( specify person ) which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance ( or inconvenience or needless anxiety ) to the said … ( or to … or |
| 21 | You knew with being pregnant , if you were sick or anything , you still had to go to classes . |
| 22 | If you were desperate enough , it was the only way to travel , but on a frosty night in the middle of December , you had to be desperate . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 24 | You had to be nice to see the doctor . |
| 25 | and you had to be nice to everybody do n't you ? |
| 26 | So you had to be sharp . |
| 27 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 28 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 29 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 30 | But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child . |