Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 2 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 3 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 4 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 5 | her used glass for me at a private view — |
| 6 | A part time post was created for me at a busy hospital 40 miles from home , and the arrangement worked very well . |
| 7 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 9 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 10 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 11 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 12 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 13 | The world spread out for me in a new map of associations and sensations . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd be scared of them coming after me with a big shotgun . |
| 15 | Each time I saw you coming dancing towards me along a sunny street , moving lightly on your toes like a boxer , with your slightly duck-toed run that I , a turned-out-toes walker , found so male and so sexy , my heart jumped in my throat and I wanted to run towards you and throw myself into your arms . |
| 16 | Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze . |
| 17 | People drifted in and out , not acknowledging one 's presence , and my only meeting with Joan 's mother was when she rushed past me with a vague smile and a tennis racquet . |
| 18 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 20 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 21 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 22 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
| 23 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
| 24 | They have piled up beneath me like a geological section . |
| 25 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |
| 26 | There 's a bloke behind me with a big suitcase , reading a newspaper . |
| 27 | In shades of kitchen mists , with eyes of light showing only murk and seams of film and grease , the air hung above and behind me like an old sink full of old washing-up . |
| 28 | The only memorable moment comes when Martin commiserates with me over an ambitious red that squirms in and out of a pocket . |
| 29 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |