Example sentences of "i [vb past] you [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I asked you not to . ’ |
2 | I got you down in sight yes . |
3 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
4 | I thought if I invited you round without one you 'd say no . ’ |
5 | Maybe that is why I invited you here after all . |
6 | ‘ Is that why you were spying on her when I caught you out in the hallway ? |
7 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
8 | I told you not to . |
9 | I told you not to ! |
10 | I told you not to fucking thrash the bollocks out of it |
11 | ‘ I told you once before what I believe in , Michael Riven . |
12 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
13 | How many times did I tell you I loved you back in Seville ? ’ |
14 | Yes , that 's why I called you in for |
15 | I packed you up in your painted form as I have done for every move I have made since the Summer Exhibition , and we travelled down to Bodmin together , you and I — ’ |
16 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
17 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
18 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
19 | ‘ I saw you both at the Castle , then I lost you . ’ |
20 | You have n't been in touch with me for an age , and I have wanted you since I saw you again at dinner . |
21 | I saw you earlier with Mr Fairley and thought you were terrific . ’ |
22 | What would your husband say if I brought you back in pieces ? ’ |
23 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
24 | I thought you more of a man than that . ’ |
25 | I kept you here for as long as I could but I ca n't do that anymore . ’ |
26 | Do n't let it be said I kept you here against your will . ’ |
27 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
28 | And in September ninety two , if I took you back to sort of September ninety one figures were quite different , well in September ninety two , eighty nine percent of our business was next day . |
29 | ‘ Tell me , then , what would my wife your mother do if I took you home with me ? |
30 | ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’ |