Example sentences of "[be] [verb] you this " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see it 's got no , they 're telling you this and telling you that , it 's them that 's doing this but they 're creating more food , food by , to create more food they 're bombarding all your food with chemicals you know all sorts you know |
| 2 | At last he has won the World Formula One title — and we 're offering you this marvellous memento of his triumph . |
| 3 | From what you said , I did n't think that you were very settled , so I am sending you this note via Mum — I suppose you may go home to see the new baby , anyway ? |
| 4 | We are sending you this advance notification partly to give you as much notice as possible but also , as the seminar is likely to be over-subscribed , to take advance reservations for places . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it is important that staff actually listen to the language used by clients ; the reason for a distressed patient telephoning the counselling office was a member of the medical staff saying to her : ‘ Mrs Jones , we are abandoning you this month . ’ |
| 6 | You know I 'm debriefing you this afternoon ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm neglecting you this year , Sam . |
| 8 | And I 'm giving you this ultimatum : tomorrow night I come into this bed and if you try to stop me , you 'll end up next door for the remainder of your days . ’ |
| 9 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 10 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 11 | I 'm asking you this as a real favour . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't think why I 'm showing you this , it 's nothing to do with your mother . |
| 13 | I 'm telling you this with authority because he 's made me typing monitor in the matter . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But my conscience is the only reason I 'm telling you this , all the same . |
| 16 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 17 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm telling you this in confidence , but you 'd find out about it when you go through the books . |
| 19 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 20 | ‘ I — I ought not to be telling you this , but Lady Lavinia told me she would … leave me something . ’ |
| 21 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 22 | ‘ I wo n't be needing you this morning after all . ’ |
| 23 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 24 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 25 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 26 | ‘ I was picturing her face when I said I was seeing you this evening . ’ |