Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 5 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
| 6 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 7 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 8 | I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl , and , as I promised to assist you at starting , I am happy to tell you that I will pay to you one hundred and fifty pounds yearly during my life , and until your annual income derived from your profession of a Chancery barrister shall amount to six hundred guineas , of which your own admission will be the only evidence that I shall receive or require . |
| 9 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 10 | And I want to remind you of the history of when amalgamations take place , because a number of people have touched on that very point this morning . |
| 11 | ‘ And I want to thank you on Hilda 's behalf . |
| 12 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 16 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 19 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 21 | I want to see you on your knees begging for my love before our time is up , and that will be all the satisfaction I need . ’ |
| 22 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 23 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 24 | Well , tonight you may leave early , but I want to see you with my guests every evening . |
| 25 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |
| 26 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
| 27 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 28 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 29 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 30 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |