Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'll wait here and see you safely inside . |
| 32 | I said , ‘ You know I have to stand here and watch you stop breathing if we do that , and as a matter of fact , you 'll gasp for air , and you 'll be watching us , and you 'll see us go away … ’ |
| 33 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 34 | She hoped she was n't turning into one of those maniacs who murder people in order to establish their superiority over their fellows who say Please and Thank you and conform to the basic customs of society . |
| 35 | ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ So I 'm not going to stand by and let you use me and destroy me as you did my brother ! ’ |
| 37 | A long garden with plenty of tall shrubs and bushes means plenty of cover for an attacker to hide there and surprise you on your night-time walk to the front door . |
| 38 | Remember when she used to stand there and madden you with her politeness and that voice of hers . |
| 39 | Nip upstairs and get you some socks . |
| 40 | If you took eggs there used to always be a lady there at dinner time what used to come round and ask you what you 'd got for dinner , and then if you 'd got eggs , she used to write your name on the eggs and do them for you . |
| 41 | ‘ I was just about to come round and see you . |
| 42 | I said you only come round to see me cos , you know , cos I al I always wanted to come round and see you so and she wo n't . |
| 43 | I blame myself for looking on and allowing you to poison their minds . |
| 44 | ‘ If I came along and accused you of sharp practice , you 'd be righteously indignant . |
| 45 | Also , how would you feel if your bosses came in and told you suddenly that you can move to another firm ‘ if you want to ’ . |
| 46 | ‘ I only remembered tonight when I came in and saw you drying your hair , ’ he assured her , his blue eyes gleaming with tender amusement . |
| 47 | ‘ Did you move about much in here when you came in and realised you 'd had an intruder ? ’ |
| 48 | Even with the doors locked , determined attackers can still break in and drag you out if you can not drive away . |
| 49 | ‘ Then I 'd clear off and leave you to face the music , ’ he had sneered . |
| 50 | ‘ Climb up and get you ? |
| 51 | and fed up and think you ca n't do it and you go blank and then you ca n't touch anything you and you know it 's hard . |
| 52 | No , she said that she came up and asked you if you wan na go out with Emma |
| 53 | You came back and said you wanted them to have thirteen weeks . |
| 54 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 55 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 56 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 57 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 58 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 59 | He was just annoyed because he came round and thought you were there . ’ |
| 60 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |