Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] you [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , erm you might not get on to number four , if you do , or I tell you to start , can you think of two or three images to add to it which would , which would fit in with the others . |
| 2 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 3 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |
| 4 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 5 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 6 | I do n't know that I meant you to guess anything , ’ he said grudgingly . |
| 7 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 8 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 9 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 10 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 11 | ‘ So much so that I want you to do it again . ’ |
| 12 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 13 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 14 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 15 | So you 're all agreed that I want you to pack up at half past ten ? |
| 16 | ‘ You may remember that I begged you to make love to me the first time , Penry Vaughan ! |
| 17 | Not that I expect you to heed my warning . |
| 18 | Apart from that I leave you to make your own sleeping arrangements . |
| 19 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I said to you earlier — I did , did n't I — sometimes I forget what I 've said — that I wanted you to look after her . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So I want you to go away . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Watson , you know the house , so I want you to go forward and look through the windows . |
| 24 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 25 | ‘ Obviously we have to move fast , so I want you to accompany me to a dinner that the developers are giving tonight . |
| 26 | ‘ What would you do if you were drunk and I ordered you to suck my cock ? ’ |
| 27 | Middleton 's body was washed up sometime later on the south coast of England , the country he had fought for so valiantly , and I commend you to read Chaz Bowyer 's citation , which embraces the official citation for Middleton 's VC , in his book The Bomber VCs . |
| 28 | ‘ Such innuendo , Chief Inspector , is wholly without foundation , and I wish you to know that one of my friends back home is the fiercest libel lawyer — ’ |
| 29 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |
| 30 | ‘ And I told you to sit down . ’ |