Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] i [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’ |
| 3 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 4 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 5 | They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial . |
| 6 | Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’ |
| 7 | It just falls all over , all round me like a firework going off and floating down the sky . |
| 8 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 9 | But Vivienne came down on me like a dragon . |
| 10 | I made the mistake of criticizing you and she came down on me like a ton of bricks . ’ |
| 11 | I want you to send them in to me , and here 's where er it becomes a little bit different from other competitions , I want you to send them in to me on a Christmas card please . |
| 12 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 13 | At the theatre everyone closed in around me like a family . |
| 14 | ‘ Not with me as a person . |
| 15 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 16 | As I watched , the whole world seemed to swim away before me in a mist — Silver , the birds above , the tall Spyglass hill . |
| 17 | You got right through to me in a way nobody has ever done before . |
| 18 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 19 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |
| 20 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 21 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 22 | You have to quite carefully , be extra carefully with me for a minute cos I ca n't quite |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 24 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |
| 25 | He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth . |
| 26 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 27 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ wobbled the blue chins as he came looming up to me like an ocean liner in a fog . |
| 29 | He looked up at me with a scowl , a scowl of surprise . |
| 30 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |