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Example sentences for "you did"

  • You did it, sir; and you're paid every shilling of your claim, ain't you?

  • But let me caution you against giving way to your temper as you did.

  • So you did, and you've got the reshipt; but there's another detainer against the Captain for a hundred and fifty.

  • If you did, you have been at pains to bring back the full amount of the pay, even if you had had to raise a loan to do so, and, if by no other means, by selling the coat off your own back.

  • Indeed, some add that, even if you did recollect, and were ever so willing, you would not be able to make good all your promises, and repay.

  • Rachel--if you did that, don't tell me about it.

  • You did what a man would do for his friend.

  • You did well; you would have caused him an access of his disease.

  • You will get yourself exiled, as you did in the time of Louis XIII.

  • It matters not; you were wrong to reply to him as you did," continued Aramis, following with his eyes the young man, now vanishing behind the cliffs.

  • No, if you did choose to do that, it must in honour and justice be divided among all your creditors.

  • You did not go with Lady Martindale and Theodora?

  • Perhaps you'll bring me luck as you did before.

  • You would not believe me if I told you, and you would hate me if you did.

  • Do you care for your ring now as much as you did?

  • I think it would be foolish if you did not.

  • They might not be your friends any more if you did that.

  • You haven't a friend you would ask; and you haven't a friend who would do it, if you did.

  • He said we had not sent another man to France who could write as humanely and as interestingly as you did.

  • Artagnan, that with such an eye as yours, you did not, at the first glance, at the first impression, discover what sort of man I am?

  • Nothing else could ever have made you look so dismally woebegone as you did, when Providence sent me to your relief.

  • Prudence, you did no such thing; you left her fainting, and in that state she was found and carried to the plague-pit.

  • Instead of doing as you did, you might have sent me to the pest-house, you know.

  • You DID have a round with the coachman," Captain Dobbin said, "and showed plenty of fight too.

  • You did," said Amelia with her teeth chattering.

  • May be you did," answered George, "but she didn't think it was worth while to take up your challenge.

  • She wouldn't know what it was for," laughed John, "if you did.

  • You did it so that you wouldn't have to pay for the dinner to-morrow.

  • Well, if you did, it was only because you'd heard her.

  • Didn't I always say you'd be glad if you did it?

  • You did, Sir,' replied the judge, with a severe frown.

  • You did, or I should not have been here, clandestinely, to-night.

  • Oh, you did get a-talking about the trial,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, brightening up with the anticipation of some important discovery.

  • And could you not stop your fatal career, if you did not do evil for the infinite and supreme joy of doing it?

  • You did well to defend the honor of a woman; and as I am going to the Red Dovecot myself, I shall know if you have told me the truth.

  • And I felt as you did, that there were enough without me.

  • Indeed you must have forgotten it long before you acted as you did.

  • You did: you've got to come and be our prisoner at once!

  • A name rose to my lips just now which I dared not utter; for if you had said 'Dead' as you did of Sophie Astier, I should have fired a bullet into my brain, this very day.

  • I was king, and for queen I took Mademoiselle Pearl, just as you did to-day.

  • You did it on purpose, but I will pay you out for it.

  • You did a nice thing in parking me off to the country.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you did" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    memento mori; restrained himself; you are very much; you came; you couldn; you dare; you don; you forget; you haven; you suppose; you two; young animal; young lawyer; young life; young male; young man; young priest; young squire; young woman; younger brother; your company; your letter; your power; your side; your sister; your time