Example sentences of "[vb past] you [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Carman went on : ‘ Is it right Mr Mellor visited you on a social basis in the daytime without his wife ? ’ |
| 2 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 3 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 4 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 5 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 6 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 7 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 8 | And if , because of that , you never want to see me again — because , after all , I am no better than Havvie ; I simply raped you in a different way — ’ And , having lapsed into complete incoherence , he fell silent , not knowing what to say , except to add humbly , ‘ I think that your father approves of my suit , but that is no matter . |
| 9 | Well I think Mr represented you on a previous occasion , that 's why I 'm asking you now . |
| 10 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 11 | He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age . |
| 12 | In the 1987 general election they presented you with a partisan newspaper , as in 1945 : nearly all were rooting for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | The fact that I tried to get away from you — presented you with an unaccustomed challenge ? ’ |
| 14 | Oh the teachers were very good , they usually greeted you with a big plum or something , if it was the right time of the year , which it usually was . |