Example sentences of "[prep] you [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well . |
2 | For those of you that did n't know , several scenes of the National College are actually displayed in Coronation Street , so now at least you 've got some useful information this week . |
3 | for those of you that did not see the match the situation looked kind of like this : |
4 | Have you ever been on a motorway when somebody has pushed their way in front of you and caused you inconvenience , made you brake ? |
5 | Resentments , rivalry , rebuffs and power struggles appear to have knocked the stuffing out of you and undermined your confidence . |
6 | But the tales that were told were not only gruesome but frightening — in fact sickening is probably a better word — of what happened to you if the desert Arab got hold of you and handed you over to his womenfolk . |
7 | And what would you have done if Schemichal got hold of you and threw you off the pitch like last night ? |
8 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
9 | You could have respect for a man who lusted after you and fought for you and took you . |
10 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
11 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
12 | But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message . |
13 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
14 | Obviously something must have happened between you that caused the change . |
15 | ‘ Once the novelty 's worn off , everywhere 's just like home , ’ she said , remembering the brief , pure joy of strange hotel rooms , which gradually became familiar as you unpacked the things you 'd brought with you and acquired the kind of things you were wont to acquire , so that very soon you recognized yourself in your surroundings and understood that there was no escape . |
16 | I began to wonder if he was doing it deliberately , if he knew I was insanely in love with you and thought it was funny to goad me . ’ |
17 | The night I ca n't remember , the night you say I quarrelled with you and walked away . ’ |
18 | with you and recorded that |
19 | David might simply have been overwhelmed by his financial responsibilities towards his mother , and could see no immediate future for a life with you and did n't want to tie you down . |
20 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
21 | It rushed upon you and swept you away . |
22 | You got fed regularly and women waited on you and asked you how you felt . |
23 | If it were not for my concern for my grandmother , I would — I would put you out of the car right now , I would let you wait beside the road until someone took pity on you and offered to drive you back to Milano . ’ |
24 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
25 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
26 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
27 | But anyway when y when you were first exploring erm the needs and Maggie came back to you and offered erm this , this policy that she wanted for her daughter , but you never actually went back and saw if there was anything else , you never came back |
28 | ‘ And I only wish that I was family and so could be of help to you and had some rights to see you . |
29 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
30 | She happened to be in Waldron at the time of the shooting , came to you and said she was Connie Fraser . |