Example sentences of "[v-ing] you [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 2 | ‘ Removing you from her vicinity is the least I can do after bringing you here to betray her . ’ |
| 3 | But I am forbidding you ever to attend another of those meetings . |
| 4 | There are still major tailbacks there , though , and the police are asking you still to avoid it . |
| 5 | That is why I am asking you now to become a Friend of Save the Children . |
| 6 | The conventionality of particular devices is made palpable by ironic comments from the author — such as : ‘ Thus , by the commonest article of the trade , having gained your interest , the action of the story will now be suspended , leaving you grumpily to consider a sort of doll biography beginning fifteen years before ’ ( Eikhenbaum 1978 : 255 ) . |