Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] you for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should slap you for that remark but you 're not worth soiling my hands with . |
| 2 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose I must thank you for that , ’ replied the Queen of Casterbridge market rather ungratefully . |
| 4 | ‘ I must thank you for this , if for nothing else , ’ she said and , placing him back in Tamar 's arms , turned and went from the room . |
| 5 | Green wood advise this should last you for three days forging , so phone them on 071 249 5848 . |
| 6 | Taliesin , rather appalled at the ‘ on his own ’ part of this speech , said , ‘ But we might need you for all kinds of things , Fribble . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said , the words low and heavy with threat , ‘ if you ever try anything like that with me again I 'll report you for sexual harassment so fast you wo n't know what 's hit you . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , they 'll take you for that , all right ; they 're fishing for them like mackerel . ’ |
| 9 | oh we 'll charge you for that . |
| 10 | I 'll get you for that . |
| 11 | What , the man said , I 'll get you for this ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll get you for this , bitch ! ’ he spat viciously . |
| 13 | But I think I heard on the television like somebody goes I 'll see you in court , I 'll sue you for millions so like , it 's terrible , but I mean , they , Desmond Lyneham was int was erm tt talking to so to someone from Ladbrokes , |
| 14 | That 's an er an expenses form and you know bring this information with you to the in-house course , the three days in-house erm because they 'll ask you for that at the end of . |
| 15 | Indemnity policies protect the lender , not the borrower , so if you failed to keep up mortgage payments and the house had to be sold for less than your outstanding debt , the insurance company would pay the lender the difference , but might sue you for that amount ! |
| 16 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 17 | I could have you for that ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She 'd have you for that suggestion . ’ |
| 19 | And who on earth could blame you for that ? ’ |
| 20 | MAX ( to Peg ) : If we were n't having a civilized drink together , I 'd bash you for that ‘ our teapot . ’ |
| 21 | I could sue you for that . |
| 22 | Players may admire you for all your footballing achievements , but unless your cufflinks are bigger , shinier and nastier than everyone else 's , respect will forever elude you . |
| 23 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 24 | A man who would touch you for ten francs , and go home and paint what would one day be worth ten million . |
| 25 | AA Hospital Plus will cover you for private health care of up to £10,000 , £20,000 , or even £40,000 , if the National Health Service can not treat you within six weeks . |
| 26 | The General Accident will insure you for all sums which you become legally liable to pay for loss of metered water resulting directly from accidental damage to water pipes and apparatus providing service to the buildings described in the schedule . |
| 27 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay for death or injury to other persons or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any motor cycle which your certificate of motor insurance permits you to drive or use . |
| 28 | General Accident will insure you for all sums which you may be held legally liable to pay in connection with your caravan and the plot on which your caravan is situated together with any fences , hedges , posts or chains around the plot resulting in |
| 29 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance4 allows you to drive or use . |
| 30 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any8 accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use . |