Example sentences of "i [vb past] you [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 2 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 3 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 6 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't have known you if'n I passed you in the street , ’ she said , ‘ 'cepting those eyes of yourn . |
| 8 | ‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely . |
| 9 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 10 | Mrs I excluded you from the speech after you asked the question |
| 11 | I mentioned you among the people she should contact , simply that . |
| 12 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 13 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 15 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 19 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |
| 20 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
| 21 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |
| 22 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 23 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 24 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 25 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 26 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 27 | ‘ I told you from the start that my relationship with my ‘ harem ’ was purely a business one . |
| 28 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you from the beginning that Joe Landau was no good for you . |
| 30 | That 's what I told you in the boat . ’ |