Example sentences of "[be] [prep] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 2 | " But think how good I am for you . |
| 3 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 4 | If it had n't been for you maybe I 'd be dead by now . ’ |
| 5 | And to think , darling Lily , my darling sister , if it had n't been for you , I 'd as likely be selling herrings on Orchard Street … |
| 6 | ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you . |
| 7 | I am as you probably know a huge supporter of Sunday trading . |
| 8 | I am as you would say a cobbler . |
| 9 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 10 | If you are like me , and feel hopelessly inadequate having toiled to the top of your favourite peak in what seemed to be ‘ the worst weather I 've seen for years , ’ only to come across a party equipped with jeans , trainers , and Tescos bags , then the Mourne Mountains are for you . |
| 11 | Both slices are for you . |
| 12 | ‘ These are for you , ’ he told her . |
| 13 | ‘ These are for you . ’ |
| 14 | If you find yourself prey to regular bad night terrors , it might be worthwhile talking the problem through with a counsellor , trained in dream analysis , to look at the imagery and try to discover what the messages are for you , what your fears are all about . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , well I have told you that the facts are for you ; you have seen all the witnesses in the case , you have heard them and it is for you to assess their evidence and to decide which of them you believe , if any , which of them you disbelieve , if any . |
| 16 | These , Pamela , are for you . |
| 17 | ‘ They are for you , Ranulf . |
| 18 | These are for you , from the grateful town of Hochhauser . |
| 19 | It was as if a subliminal message had passed between them ; as if she had said aloud , ‘ Look , I understand how things are between you and Alain Gebrec , but Iris does n't seem to and I do n't want her upset , ’ and as if he had responded , ‘ Do not worry , I will not say or do anything to hurt her . ’ |
| 20 | But you 've decided why you , you 're just rising to the bait then are n't you , if these arguments are between you , and you 're coming out with all this , it just makes you look stupid because you 're , you 're into , are n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know how concerned I 've been about you and this damn phantom baby ? ’ |
| 23 | Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start . |
| 24 | Well that 's why she has n't been about you see . |
| 25 | Er which is the case unfortunately in er some instances with animals , but it 's been as you know perhaps at the R S P C A shelter just down the road there at er , but it 's gone now to a happy home in Derbyshire . |
| 26 | Oh , Charlie , you 've done it now , because she 's been after you for years . |
| 27 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 28 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 29 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 30 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |