Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
3 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
4 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
5 | And I want to remind you of the history of when amalgamations take place , because a number of people have touched on that very point this morning . |
6 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
7 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
8 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
9 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
10 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
11 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
12 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
13 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
14 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
15 | The doctor looked carefully at her fingernails and neck , then said abruptly , ‘ I want to admit you to the Royal . |
16 | I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase . |
17 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
18 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
19 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
20 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
21 | Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF . |
22 | I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys . |
23 | What can I do to get you off the phone ? ’ |
24 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
25 | ‘ So , when I happened to see you in a clinch in your office , you 're telling me she 'd lost her balance ? ’ |
26 | ‘ I remember passing you in the corridor at the INCUBI:IS building in Helsinki . |
27 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
28 | And why should I try to throw you off the scent ? |
29 | Because what I feel puts you in a dangerous position , ’ he said with silky menace . |
30 | done it , she said I was reading it here and I meant to ask you for the , she said , anyway when he come back I said have you found them out , alright , he said I 've had a go he said |