Example sentences of "[vb past] you [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 2 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 3 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 4 | Was this what erm led you to join the Labour Party ? |
| 5 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 6 | Yesterday , we asked you to name the Hindu God of Love . |
| 7 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 8 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 9 | Intact , the collection enabled you to study the entire element of the Cubist style ’ . |
| 10 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 11 | Apprised of this information , the computer print-outs ( ’ it 's all down to you , the draw will be made by the same computer that picked you to join the two out of every 100 households in the Barnard Castle area ’ ) are on their way by first-class post to Tom Champagne . |