Example sentences of "you [vb past] there be " in BNC.

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1 It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life .
2 And where would the All that the families you mentioned there were they all port families ?
3 Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank .
4 Oh you were , you were asked , somebody , I do n't know how it came about but erm if you found there was something going you went to do it .
5 So , perhaps the reason is the loss of a love object , and then of course if you found there was a in fact a loss of a love , love object , then you might to see in greater detail , how this whole thing came about .
6 Because there 's another storey down the bottom floor , because if you noticed there 's a huge great patio there , unfortunately , so er , so it 's eight thirty seven , say you 're being picked up nine thirty
7 Can I just one one final point there is e I did notice in my proof there was in in in typing there was one line I do n't know if you noticed there was one line that was missed off the bottom of one of the pages , and if I can er either give that to you .
8 Well you reckoned there were n't a corner on a boat .
9 When you heard there was a minister coming I was just afraid and looking to see would you see that dark black clothed individual coming .
10 Whichever way you looked there was nothing but calm black water .
11 Er , I was at a a appalled recently being in in Edinburgh in the shops in the middle of September where everywhere you looked there was Christmas ball balls and
12 Everywhere you looked there were the mills : cotton mills , textile mills , grim forbidding buildings , all of them , many cheek by jowl with the slums they had created .
13 Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government .
14 Well that was n't difficult , you had to be rather brazen , you see , and push your way through because although you knew there was a job going somewhere , you were n't on your own and there 's a lot more after it .
15 was okay cos you knew there was some heavy heavy organized er guys up there , who who had ammunition and who had had had they felt differently that time , I guess the guns would have come and the police station would have been attacked .
16 If you knew there was a plot afoot , should n't you have mentioned it before , you know how paranoid our glorious leader gets !
17 You knew there were just two envelopes in there ? ’ she continued .
18 Why , why is that the case , well , tell me , why might people , why might you move to a , if you were a rural labourer , why might you move to erm , to an urban area where you knew there were some jobs ?
19 Just when you thought there was no one watching over nomes , the universe went and tried to prove you wrong …
20 There is a comma in the agreement where you thought there was a full-stop . ’
21 If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house .
22 But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then .
23 ‘ Several moments ago I asked you why you thought there was a drugs ring operating in the club , ’ she said .
24 And er then Skerrymor and then you had there was erm a supply of beer er er allowed to each rock .
25 Influencing you see , there 's that word again , you said there is no influence .
26 Okay well on your application form you said there 's no reason why you ca n't start straight away .
27 You said there 's no writin' .
28 Well I thought you said there 's people in it .
29 Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the
30 You said there were two things we needed to discuss . ’
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