Example sentences of "[verb] you to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 2 | I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 3 | I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’ |
| 4 | ’ I would have expected you to be bigger ’ . |
| 5 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 6 | I would have expected you to be doing that . |
| 7 | The screw would shout ‘ Doses ’ and expect you to be waiting by the front door . |
| 8 | You expect your parents to be superhuman , and they expect you to be kids forever . |
| 9 | In all things I expect you to be a lady . |
| 10 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 11 | I expect you to be . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 13 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I expect you to be sober , if you 're driving . ’ |
| 15 | Because , by the time we reach the house where the twins are staying , I expect you to be in a friendly , pleasant state of mind . |
| 16 | Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon ! |
| 17 | Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt . |
| 18 | If I find I can trust you to be sensible . ’ |
| 19 | I simply urge you to be reasonable and not go over the top . ’ |
| 20 | We 're going to train you to be an executive , not some zombie-clerk in Stores . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 22 | Ask the average person how much time they put into training their voice or obtaining feedback about the effect of their voice on others , and they will probably consider you to be a little mad . |
| 23 | If you are absent without prior approval we will consider you to be taking unauthorised absence unless you provide a satisfactory explanation of why it was not possible to obtain approval in advance . |
| 24 | We will consider you to be wasting ES time if you spend long or frequent periods of time talking about personal matters which have no relevance to you work for the ES . |
| 25 | Right so what causes you to be distressed , stressed ? |
| 26 | Who or what causes you to be stressed ? |
| 27 | SIR JACOB : Billy , how come you to be reconciled to her ? |
| 28 | And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are . |
| 29 | So I really want you to be like a proper sort of little girl . |
| 30 | ‘ So I want you to be very brave while you listen to it . |