Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 2 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 4 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no chance of seeing you through the day is there ? ’ |
| 6 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 7 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 8 | THE Uranus-Neptune contact is aimed at changing your personal horizons in the sense of opening you to the idea that life can be different — and so can you . |
| 9 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 10 | On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |
| 12 | It is curious how agents only rarely think of providing you with a plan on a voluntary basis . |
| 13 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 14 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 15 | Another , contrasting function served by inverted commas ( besides direct quotation , which is discussed below , Chapter 5 , pp. 105 – 7 ) is that of distancing you from an expression . |
| 16 | Abuse has a habit of smacking you in the nose like that , for all to see . |
| 17 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry I kissed you earlier , but I swear on the Bible I 've no intention of ravishing you on the kitchen floor before supper — or any other time . ’ |
| 19 | The Land Rover will go easily through 9 or 10 inches of snow , but unless deeper snow is well packed , then the vehicle will not drive up on top of it and it builds up underneath bringing you to a halt . |
| 20 | He 's even got a house on Murder Cay , so he has , and he 's not the only one with his nose stuck in that particular trough , but it 's not your business , and you do n't mess with the man because he 's got friends who wo n't think twice about feeding you to the sharks . |
| 21 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 22 | Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly . |
| 23 | The ‘ Yes to All ’ button stops Windows from asking you about every file . |
| 24 | The Directors of Craigendarroch Country Estate have great pleasure in inviting you to a luxury weekend in Royal Deeside . |
| 25 | Some of it you know just to ignore , but if it is from someone who knows what he is on about , then it can be helpful in making you into a better player . |
| 26 | What information does it really carry , apart from telling you about the therapeutic inclinations of the caterwauler himself ? |
| 27 | ‘ We thank the Government for relaxing these but this is rather like thanking somebody for refraining from hitting you on the head with a heavy stick , ’ said Brendan Burns , the federation 's Scottish-based UK vice-chairman . |
| 28 | I look forward to seeing you on the 9th June . |
| 29 | I look forward to seeing you on the 14th of June . |
| 30 | I look forward to seeing you on the 27th . |