Example sentences of "[vb pp] you [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus .
2 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 .
3 ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world .
4 Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’
5 No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction
6 I 've got you in the common room I think anyway .
7 And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs .
8 when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ?
9 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 …
10 In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics .
11 We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’
12 ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’
13 You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you .
14 One of my boyfriends once described you as the Rossetti maiden . ’
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