Example sentences of "that [verb] you [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 2 | When you saw that happening you realised you had to go into other things . |
| 3 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 4 | That 's another story , where they were , and if you 're interested , downstairs there 's a very good map that shows you superimposed on a modern map of Oxford where they were , but they very much affected citizens in the St Aldate 's , because every citizen , and every scholar who was still in the university , between the ages of 16 and 60 had to work on the fortifications at least one day a week , or pay a shilling fine . |
| 5 | As you enjoyed that slice you had yesterday so very much , I ordered cook to bake you an extra large one all for yourself . ’ |
| 6 | You 've still got time to start that diet you planned all those months ago . |
| 7 | So a department name , the admin department , a department code , one hundred , and as I was saying er , you wan na to get in the top left hand corner , any information that keeps you informed so I wan na get both the department code and the department name into that one cell . |
| 8 | ‘ We showed her that videofit you issued , she said it was him , and she gave a good description of the lorry . |
| 9 | I ask you to break that pledge you made with him so that he may marry me , the mother of his children . ’ |
| 10 | Damn it all , woman , I would have thought that talk you had in the car park with your two ‘ friends ’ would have knocked some sense into your stubborn little head , but obviously it did n't ! ’ |
| 11 | But , saying that means you got a lot |
| 12 | They were narrowly beaten by a four-nation , eight-man team of elite males in Italy in a spectacle that proved you did n't have to be one of the team to enjoy the fun . |
| 13 | Are the hours you spend travelling , at work or away from the only chair that suits you made a misery because of BACK AND SCIATIC PAIN ? |
| 14 | You could shrug your shoulders , put on a face that said you did n't care , but you did and nothing could ever be secure again . |
| 15 | " Say , that was so dumb that stunt you pulled . |
| 16 | We were going to run that tape you made after the planning-committee meeting , but in the light of recent events it seems unwise . |
| 17 | Now if you want that drink you 'd better tell me where the fridge is so I can get some milk . ’ |
| 18 | It 's about a suspension that leaves you stirred not shaken . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you finished all that work you brought with you ? ’ |
| 20 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |