Example sentences of "you [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 2 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 6 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 7 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 8 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 9 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 10 | You trainer is a nicer guy who can advise you about the next fight . |
| 11 | He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of science , and you as the first novelist of science . ’ |
| 12 | Finally , to help you formulate your business plans and guide you through the first years , The Institute of Business counsellors is offering ten business counselling sessions for the first three prize winners and five each for the three runners-up . |
| 13 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 14 | I am also enclosing a note about the British National Corpus , and shall get the discussed poster to you before the next ESBW event . |
| 15 | Contact you within the next fortnight something |
| 16 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 17 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 21 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 22 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 23 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 24 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 25 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 26 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 27 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 28 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 30 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |