Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] you this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 2 | I expect Alain has given you this one . |
| 3 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 4 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 5 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 7 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 8 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 10 | I just want to ask you this . |
| 11 | What I want to show you this afternoon , is that the power of the child 's imagination is a factory which we have but to encourage , not to teach . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to show you this , ’ Viktor said . |
| 13 | Nurse Buckle intends to visit you this afternoon to advise you further . |
| 14 | Erm , I will start with the two most important pieces of information that I 'm going to give you this afternoon . |
| 15 | And erm they said well you 've got to come off it , you know , were not going to do you this time , but you 've got to come straight , stop doing it all , erm , cos you 've been reported and your on the Social Security . |
| 16 | ‘ I forgot to give you this back . ’ |
| 17 | You know I erm Hugh was talking about erm somebody being thrown out of hospital after gall bladder operation after only two days well fortunately these days there are one or two strives in er in in health care erm to erm which is very much easier to er , operate on people if you 're if you if you 're going to put them out cos the operation 's more er simpler it 's far less stress on patients and and , and they they 're becoming a lot quicker er , clearly if faded out er , the way is completed then er obviously things are serrated with with the chief executive of the health authority and I 'd like to give you this October when when the Chief Executive was . |
| 18 | I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for |
| 19 | So if you compare critical illness and death with what happens at the time , and I 've got to ask you this . |
| 20 | I 'd just like to ask you this , I know you ca n't answer , but why are you making us say this stuff ? |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I was n't going to tell you this , but I went to the bank and asked to see the Manager . |
| 22 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 23 | Now this one I 'm going to show you this one this time . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's coming to see you this evening to talk things over . ’ |
| 25 | Otherwise Signor Gismondi would not have granted you this rare opportunity . |
| 26 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 27 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 28 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 29 | We decided to send you this newsletter as we now know what the White Paper on local government reform says . |
| 30 | ‘ A thought of that two months back might have spared you this grief now . |