Example sentences of "i [verb] you [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 3 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 4 | I send you into the parallel continuum with orders to collect the final statue and do nothing more . |
| 5 | I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long . |
| 6 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
| 7 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 8 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 11 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 12 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 13 | ‘ So you wo n't mind if I run you into the main data-net as Jezrael Brown , hey ? |
| 14 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 15 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 16 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 17 | And yet if I refer you to no other example than that little one-legged girl whom we saw not so long ago in our Provence , does n't your universal statement collapse ? ’ |
| 18 | Notice what Jesus says in verse seven , he says , I tell you in the same way there 'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance . |
| 19 | I tell you in the same way , there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents . |
| 20 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
| 21 | Right , can I take you to the amended recommendation on page forty nine . |
| 22 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 23 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 24 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 25 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 26 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 27 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 28 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |