Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] you [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stair thrust an arm around him , laid his head on Neil 's shoulder , and said , ‘ Let me treat you to a good ‘ un at Rachel 's , Neil , ’ which completed the destruction of any desire Neil might have had to treat himself . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ May I refer you to an unimpeachable authority : Mr John Camden Hotten , author of a biography of Dickens , and also , he paused impressively , a life of Thackeray , refers to it in 1870 as Bleak House . |
| 4 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 5 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 6 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 7 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 8 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 9 | Tomorrow morning may I invite you to a complimentary breakfast of tinned yam , tinned pineapple , tinned paw-paw , Belgian coffee , German rolls , Swiss sugar and English butter processed and packed in Kenya ? |
| 10 | Can I press you to a candied starfish ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
| 12 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 13 | Any agency which places you in an unviable or potentially dangerous position could be accused of negligence by delegation , and so it is equally not in their interests to place you inappropriately . |
| 14 | WE ARE BORN OF STARS is the 3-D IMAX film which takes you into a new dimension using state-of-the-art computer graphics . |
| 15 | ‘ She keeps you on a tight rein , does she ? |
| 16 | Should we regard you as an American artist ? |
| 17 | As I am aware that to remove it from its present location would leave an unwelcome gap in your own display , may I suggest that , if you are willing to lend it , we supply you with a full-size mounted or framed photograph of the original to take its place for the duration of our exhibition ? |
| 18 | What do we charge for this service ? — generally nothing , as our costs are normally covered by commissions payable on business that we introduce but we provide you with a full statement of our Terms of Business before any transaction takes place . |
| 19 | Doctor : ‘ Well , we put you in a private room and feed you nothing but veal escalopes and pancakes . ’ |
| 20 | If we shoot you against a blank wall you might be in the middle of the city , or in the studio , or anywhere . |
| 21 | Here 's me taking you for a prancing little parson when all the while the cloth is a covering for a frustrated sex maniac . ’ |
| 22 | They provide you with a short summary of the context to help you assess the tone of the extract . |
| 23 | When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body . |
| 24 | In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours . |
| 25 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 26 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 27 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 28 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 29 | ‘ They leave you in a certain mood , which you might not be able to explain at the time , but it gets under your skin . ’ |
| 30 | In the 1987 general election they presented you with a partisan newspaper , as in 1945 : nearly all were rooting for Mrs Thatcher . |