Example sentences of "[prep] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't worry about me all bandaged up , did you ? ’ |
| 3 | Sorry about having a go at you two about talking about me all the time but I mean that 's the w that 's , that 's the impression I 've always got . |
| 4 | Someone like James for , how long did that go on for , for about a month , when he could n't he stop talking about me all the time it was sort of like , you know , I like this , you know what I mean , he was talking |
| 5 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 6 | Having to find out about me this way . ’ |
| 7 | She said , ‘ Then tell me , my Lord , how many times you have thought about me this day . ’ |
| 8 | The programme summed up for me all the human frustrations , hopelessness and despair . |
| 9 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 10 | Nine o'clock on the late show babysitting for me all this week , Adrian and then one o'clock till six o'clock during the early hours of Thursday the fifteenth of July , to keep you company , it 's Mark . |
| 11 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 12 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 13 | A recent visit to the Festival of Photoreportage was the first time that Tony had met other members of the group , ‘ Some of them I did n't know and for me that was the wondrous part of being at Perpignan . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly not the radiant glow of confidence and success , or it sure as hell would n't have worked for me that Saturday round at Ramillies Drive . |
| 15 | I do n't know about you , but for me that discovery was an overwhelming experience which brought tears . |
| 16 | Pulled between the conflicting impulses , I ought to resist the craving which dulls the awareness which moves me to abstain , because for me that is a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face the fact that you might get cancer ’ . |
| 17 | At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday . |
| 18 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 19 | James never did anything for me that way , Chrissy , never once . |
| 20 | And if you ever have word for me that may bear fruit , come and ask entry to me wherever I am . |
| 21 | ‘ It was the pet name for me that was favoured at home . ’ |
| 22 | It 's pretty easy for me that |
| 23 | Well it 's much more useful for me that is than something . |
| 24 | I tell you what you can do , you can bring my curtains in for me that 'll keep you cool , go on |
| 25 | Thinks he 's a little afraid for me that . |
| 26 | Er yes it is really , it 's a bit too long for me that one though |
| 27 | She changes for me each day — she is blonde and she is dark , young and mature , fat and thin — it does n't matter . |
| 28 | All afternoon Fiona kept me close by her side , looking around for me any time I fell a step behind . |
| 29 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 30 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |