Example sentences of "you five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I owe you five farthings , |
| 2 | ‘ Will you let me lend you five pounds , Len , and take a couple of days at Southend , or somewhere ? ’ asked Clare . |
| 3 | If such a plea as this could be supported , the following would be a binding promise : A man might complain that another person used the public highway more than he ought to do , and that other might say , do not complain , and I will give you five pounds . |
| 4 | Oh I 've used all my change I 'll have to give you five pounds . |
| 5 | find it in the dictionary I 'll give you five pounds . |
| 6 | I gave you five pages , yeah but |
| 7 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 8 | They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts . |
| 9 | We 'd say : ‘ Bugger off — we 'll give you five minutes . ’ |
| 10 | Even if everything does go wrong the interviewer will have forgotten the disasters which seem so catastrophic to you five minutes after you have left the room . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll give you five minutes , ’ he said wearily . |
| 12 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 13 | It 'll only take you five minutes . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll give you five minutes breath of fresh air , alright ? |
| 15 | Yeah okay well I 'll I 'll try and give you five minutes before eleven o'clock so er so you can nip over to the video room or wherever it 's being played . |
| 16 | You do n't go into areas that are poorly lit if you can help it , you do n't take a short cut through the dark woods because it 'll save you five minutes on your journey , stick in well lit , we well lit areas . |
| 17 | ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’ |
| 18 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 19 | I am now going to offer you five ways of interpreting the cross . |
| 20 | " Well , I 'll give you five weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll give you five seconds , ’ I say . |
| 22 | ‘ We will take you five miles . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm going to smoke too much , I 'm going to smoke too much , I 'm going to drink too much , I 'm not going to do enough exercise , I 'm going to put on too much weight , I 'm going to stress myself too much , and I can talk to you five days about those conditions . |