Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the marshal asked to see you as soon as you recovered . |
| 2 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 3 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 4 | She hesitated a moment and then said , " Matthew asked to see you as soon as you arrived . |
| 5 | ‘ Matilda planned to kill you and send a message back to the Queen pinned to your body . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I never expected to see you — or anyone else — up here this morning , ’ Seb admitted honestly as he sat down at the kitchen table . |
| 8 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 9 | But then once they got to know you … |
| 10 | And ac actually they got to know you . |
| 11 | ‘ You think I would change my opinion if I got to know you better ? ’ he asked in a voice like velvet . |
| 12 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 13 | ‘ And he tried to kill you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Someone tried to kill you ; how much more concrete does proof have to be ? ’ |
| 15 | He tried to kill you and that makes it look very much as though he 's the person who killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 16 | Suddenly Stok said , ‘ They tried to kill you . |
| 17 | I know why they tried to kill you . |
| 18 | I tried to eject you , you did n't |
| 19 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 20 | Once , in a rare burst of temper , Carol said , ‘ Your mother did n't want you , she tried to abort you . |
| 21 | ‘ I only tried to frighten you , my dear . |
| 22 | And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company . |
| 23 | Some of the old inspectors tried to catch you out . |
| 24 | I never stopped loving you , but somehow since I 've been abroad , and you 've been ‘ out in the world ’ , we seem to have struck a deeper note , and more powerful … |
| 25 | I never stopped loving you , either … however hard I tried to fool myself that I had … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I saw what happened when that guy tried to pick you up . |
| 27 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 28 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
| 29 | ‘ How would you feel if somebody tried to buy you ? ’ |
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