Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] you [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to put you under for at least forty-eight hours . |
| 2 | And then he said , I do n't mean to put pressure on , but I want to get to know you , we 've got so much in common and erm I want to take you out for dinner , not just go to the concert , but , we do n't get to know each other that way . |
| 3 | Do you mean we 've let you off for the evening ? |
| 4 | ‘ You 're really ambivalent about what I 've let you in for , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | Rodney said , ‘ We 've put you down for dinner , seeing as you chickened out again last night . ’ |
| 6 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 7 | I 've ticked you off for all these here . |
| 8 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |