Example sentences of "i [vb past] you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 14 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 24 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 25 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 26 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 27 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 28 | Here , in sequence , are quotations from Helen 's letters to Janet Aldis : Do you remember Janet ? , when I saw you last I told you of a plan I had made , regarding the boy who father is taking up , and who writes Nature sketches . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you from the start that my relationship with my ‘ harem ’ was purely a business one . |
| 30 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |