Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] you [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Come in here a bit , ’ she suggested as they came to her room , ‘ I 'd better tell you a secret . ’
2 I suppose I 'd better offer you a drink now that you 're here . ’
3 I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics .
4 but I mean you do n't think erm cos he said to me he said oh I suppose I 'd better buy you a Christmas present and I said yeah buy me something that I 'd use .
5 We came round to give you a lift .
6 ‘ No , Constanza , ’ Ludovico replied , ‘ I did not give you a shock .
7 I did n't bring you a stamp .
8 I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine .
9 Yeah that was alright I w I did n't tell you the truth when we said that , sorry !
10 And that was also why I did n't leave you a note explaining what we were up to as Jeff told me to .
11 I come off , like , but they did n't give you no treatment or anything .
12 Encouraged , he went on , ‘ The President introduced you as his granddaughter but he did n't give you a name . ’
13 Cos th er index-linked gilts were po were we very poor , because against interest rates they did n't give you a lot of guarantees obviously , you know , interest rates were high , index-linked gilts were er already languishing .
14 Did n't give you a light .
15 It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all .
16 ‘ And I did n't give you the chance to put things straight , ’ she murmured .
17 ‘ But she did n't give you the book .
18 ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about .
19 ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . )
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