Example sentences of "[vb pp] you to " in BNC.

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1 I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . "
2 I suppose after those stories Harry told us about you being an asthmatic as a child , I 'd expected you to be delicate , a thin undersized weakling ! ’
3 ’ I would have expected you to be bigger ’ .
4 I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’
5 I would have expected you to be doing that .
6 SIR JACOB : Billy , how come you to be reconciled to her ?
7 You could n't simply ignore the fact that he had sentenced you to death , but it was important to let him know that you were n't rattled .
8 Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling .
9 It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations .
10 You care deeply for your sister , but it 's blinded you to everything else . ’
11 If you do something at speed , it 's really the accumulation of everything that 's gone before that has got you to that point .
12 Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ?
13 But Olsen has got you to the WC94 , so he must be doing something right ; - )
14 ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog .
15 Look , has anyone actually shown you to your cabin yet ? ’
16 The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling !
17 And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’
18 We have n't invited you to tea , ’ said the March Hare .
19 ‘ I would have preferred to have invited you to a waitress service lunch over there of course . ’
20 " Who has invited you to a dance ? "
21 They 've invited you to the wedding . ’
22 ‘ No one 's invited you to this party ! ’
23 Well we 've we only went to the if you like the training session of the er erm participants yesterday and we 've got our next meeting on the 22nd February that I 've invited you to at .
24 If she 's invited you to her house that 's up to you in n it ?
25 Addressing himself to the inhabitants of the world , jinn , men and angels , he said , ‘ The Imam of our time has sent you his blessing and his compassion and has called you to be his special , chosen servants .
26 The day you joined up , she came to tell me I 'd driven you to it . ’
27 I would n't have let you go without a fight , though , even if the hell had driven you to it .
28 And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up .
29 ‘ And it was my plan that has brought you to your heart 's desire . ’
30 It has brought you to your knees
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