Example sentences of "you have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm delighted to see you 've emerged from hiding .
2 ‘ In the meantime I see you 've reverted to addressing me as Penry .
3 If you it as far as far as you can you 've got to , when you throw javelin you 've got to bring your arm through right , you 've got to twist , you 've got to make sure your wrist 's tight you 've got to keep your erm left foot planted .
4 ‘ I 'm glad to see you 've got over your matrimonial difficulties without rancour , ’ I said , draining my glass , knowing he was n't listening .
5 Now when you start thinking of what to do you 've got plus four and you 've got minus three if you take the smaller digit , now that digit is four , that digit is three if you take the smaller digit from the larger digit , you take the three from the four you get one and the answer is whatever sign that larger number is .
6 ‘ I see you 've taken to wearin' that jewellery in your ear , ’ says Rory .
7 I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich .
8 ‘ Glad to see you 've recovered from being goosed by Mrs Cody .
9 The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way .
10 ‘ Whatever I tell you has to remain between us . ’
11 Rahab tells them , ‘ I know that the Lord has given you the land , and that the fear of you has fallen upon us , and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you . ’
12 your employee 's PIW with you has lasted for more than three years
13 Kind of make you hoot with laughter half the time , erm , and the contrast with that is the point , which I do n't know whether any of you has looked at , of course , called Gandhi 's Truth .
14 We do not innovate ; it may be we renovate what was customary with those same ancients , but with you has disappeared in novelties . ’
15 ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Bella ; Bella ? — who according to you has slept with half of London — expects you to go through this … this disgusting pantomime in order to get a divorce ?
16 The life you bring with you has set in motion
17 ‘ Do you wish you 'd stayed with him ? ’
18 Glancing at him , she queried helplessly , ‘ Do you ever have days when you wish you 'd stayed in bed ? ’
19 Mind you , you think if you 'd stayed in there now .
20 ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’
21 the prize money down , and there were a trip planned , you 'd to go from Queensbury and you used to go through to Blackpool
22 but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that
23 Well , we did n't know what you 'd planned for tomorrow !
24 Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto .
25 I thought you 'd seen to it ’ dribble-brain ! ’ she yelled when she 'd finished directing Posi to alter the gases in the cargo areas .
26 The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment .
27 I knew then you 'd done for him all right . ’
28 But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man .
29 When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea .
30 You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’
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