Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] you [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
2 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
3 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
4 | I send you into the parallel continuum with orders to collect the final statue and do nothing more . |
5 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
6 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
7 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
8 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
9 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
10 | ‘ So you wo n't mind if I run you into the main data-net as Jezrael Brown , hey ? |
11 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
12 | I know you for a pure creature . |
13 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
14 | And yet if I refer you to no other example than that little one-legged girl whom we saw not so long ago in our Provence , does n't your universal statement collapse ? ’ |
15 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
16 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
17 | Right , can I take you to the amended recommendation on page forty nine . |
18 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
19 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
20 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
21 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
22 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
23 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
24 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
25 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
26 | Can I press you to a candied starfish ? ’ |
27 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
29 | Another time perhaps you will listen to me when I warn you of the dangerous ground you are treading . ’ |
30 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |