Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] you [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |
| 2 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 3 | ‘ Even I trust you to that degree , ’ she agreed shakily , smiling in spite of herself . |
| 4 | I have n't been able to make myself believe I hate you for some time now , Luke . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 6 | If I provide you with second-class expenses you would be justified in cheating me . |
| 7 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 8 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 9 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 10 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 11 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 12 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 13 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 14 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 15 | ‘ I hold you in some affection , child , ’ came the reply . |
| 16 | Got to keep tomorrow of er what time , I get you in that carrier . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember you from seven years ago , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I remember you from last time , but |
| 19 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 20 | I do not relish the thought of leaving her here with him while I drive you for many miles and wait for you to linger by shop windows . ’ |
| 21 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 22 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 23 | I suppose you except such motor cars as the Jaguar from this and Ferraris and Rolls Royce , but the majority of cars available to the public are very dull . |
| 24 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 25 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 26 | Did I tell you about that bloke the other week who got , the one who just cocky with me ? |
| 27 | But some people are appallingly mean did I tell you about that Ned being done out of six hundred pounds by an indian doctor and a her husband ? |
| 28 | Erm did I tell you about that Lucy and Ricky ? |
| 29 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 30 | Ca n't I leave you for five minutes ? |