Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he go and mum goes where have you been ? |
| 2 | I think it would be best now to tell you what happened this afternoon . |
| 3 | " Nothing would give your mother greater pleasure I 'm sure , Chuck , than to see you bring distinction to yourself and your family , " cut in the senator reprovingly before his wife could reply . |
| 4 | ‘ When we have so many spare rooms here it seemed eminently sensible , much better than allowing you to travel backwards and forwards . ’ |
| 5 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 6 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 7 | This brochure can do more than introduce you to a few of the services that our personal customers find most useful . |
| 8 | Once installed you then have the choice of running the Thesaurus as a standalone program or as a memory resident one . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd sooner crawl than let you help me , ’ she spat at him . |
| 10 | I do not exist except to serve you and give you pleasure . |
| 11 | hailing from bonny Glasgow but destined for world domination , One Dove are one of the more permanent fixtures of a transient club scene and , despite the innocuous chemical reference , they 'd rather whisper sweet nothings in your ear than whip you into a frenzy of fancy footwork . |
| 12 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 13 | The last two examples , I 'm actually going to ask you to do tonight rather than keep you here this evening . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Bill who suggested Cy when it was clear that Ibn Fayoud would take his horses away from the yard rather than use you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would sooner swim in the pool with the crocodiles than marry you , ’ I had said . |
| 16 | Good nothing wrong with that , nothing wrong at all , now I think rather than set you something new , it 's better to , try to get another bar . |
| 17 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 18 | ‘ Adolph , I would like nothing better than to give you the chance to start your life again , but Colonel Goreng … he 's the cautious one . |
| 19 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 20 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 21 | ‘ Than calling you at the office . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd die rather than marry you ! ’ |
| 23 | Equally well , rather than disappoint you , the assistant may say ( hat the item is not in stock at present but may be in next week — after several weeks of returning to ask about it , you may suddenly realize that the item never is coming in . |
| 24 | Than having you know , break all the alarms and everything else . |
| 25 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 26 | Do you think they would n't rather have known the truth than believe you 'd grown too selfish to care ? ’ |
| 27 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 28 | I 'm carrying you because you need to get back into the warmth as fast as possible , and this is quicker than letting you walk by yourself . ’ |
| 29 | Wandering in the road , although giving you good all-round vision , puts you at the mercy , even late at night , of the local juggernaut or aspiring Grand Prix racer . |
| 30 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |