Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] you [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Dec 10 1988 Pick yourself up , gentle reader — we apologise for knocking you sideways with this psychedelic carnival of visuals and ideas . |
2 | ‘ Football has a way of kicking you down like that . |
3 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
4 | ‘ I 've had a few guilty twinges about ticking you off about those steps . |
5 | I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time . |
6 | He saved you from the clutches of that greasy little man by carrying you off to that back room — ’ |