Example sentences of "[vb past] you a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Are you , are telling are you telling me that you 'd vote for somebody in rags on the television who promised you a better future ?
2 ‘ I promised you a romantic walk — is this romantic enough ? ’
3 well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that
4 ‘ I only met you a half hour ago and I love you like one of my own . ’
5 I got you a wee ball of your wool for your mittens .
6 This draper 's ploy was a bit of a con , for unless asked specifically for the farthing change , the assistant handed you a small card with perhaps three or four safety pins or a piece of paper with ordinary pins attached .
7 When Rachel was asked to spell ‘ ba-na-na ’ Margaret took over and said , ‘ It 's all right Rachel , she means ‘ baa-naa-naa ’ ! '' Then the nice teacher taught you a little rhyme in American and English — ‘ The little calf ( căf ) went down the path ( păth ) in a minute and a half ( hăf ) to take a bath ( băth ) . ’
8 As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way .
9 ‘ The man who assaulted you called you a dirty cop , or words to that effect .
10 Cos he called you a fat cunt , yo , it still rankles with you does n't it ?
11 ‘ I reckon Hatton was right when he called you an old woman , Cullam . ’
12 ‘ She sent you a posthumous letter .
13 I expect he gived you a funny answer
14 Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence .
15 I brought you a hot water bottle your aspirin .
16 I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase .
17 Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’
18 Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand .
19 I did you a small service once by delivering a letter .
20 I did you a blue face .
21 ‘ I expect she gave you a good tea , ’ said my mother .
22 When you went to the Ideal Home Exhibition they gave you a hot sausage on a stick to eat — with pickle , not just a picture of one to look at .
23 Oh I gave you a small spoon .
24 Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about
25 Well the aye , the quality of the cattle cos it gave you a better grass , better feeding before that you see they bought some clover .
26 If you were in London erm you were called up give gave you gave you a white feather cos you were going in the army . .
27 He did not beat you , and gave you a fine son .
28 Ian gave you a prickly stick and you hurt yourself ?
29 ‘ I gave you a false name .
30 Erm on the overhead before last I I gave you a little equation which demonstrated the importance of measuring single channel currents and it ga and it had implicit in it an open state probability which reflects gating .
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