Example sentences of "[vb pp] you [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 2 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 3 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 5 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 7 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 8 | I have placed you in the gravest danger . |
| 9 | I 've got you in the common room I think anyway . |
| 10 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 11 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 12 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 13 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |
| 14 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 17 | You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you . |
| 18 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 19 | One of my boyfriends once described you as the Rossetti maiden . ’ |