Example sentences of "[v-ing] you [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's being kind to you — protecting you from the truth . ’ |
| 2 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 4 | It 's keeping you on the bike . |
| 5 | Around and About : keeping you in the know |
| 6 | Keeping you in the news |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 9 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 10 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 11 | He blacked out a couple of his front teeth with stage cosmetics and made his breath smell with chemical — oldest trick in the business to prevent people looking you in the face close to . |
| 12 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I remember passing you in the corridor at the INCUBI:IS building in Helsinki . |
| 14 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 15 | Alerting you to the position of His Majesty 's Government . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I play a film over and over again in my mind of me meeting you at the airport . |
| 18 | Yeah er they , they would n't have come out with some of the things about er I ca n't remember what was said that erm you know er would n't mind meeting you in the bath or |
| 19 | As for the personal appearances , many viewers are actually meeting you in the flesh for the first time . |
| 20 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 21 | This is merely another way of reminding you of the technique of repetition examined in the section on Memory . |
| 22 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 23 | I look forward to seeing you at the Exhibition launch at the Advice Shop on the evening of the 13th . |
| 24 | I look forward to seeing you at the festival . |
| 25 | We both look forward to seeing you at the end of this term , and to those warm family evenings of good food , relaxation and talk . |
| 26 | My colleagues and I look forward to seeing you at the meeting . |
| 27 | I look forward to seeing you at the party tonight . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's no chance of seeing you through the day is there ? ’ |
| 29 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 30 | Lance is making long-distance calls from his study — he 's looking forward to seeing you in the morning . |