Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] i [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And she writes to me about a man like this ! ’ |
| 2 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 3 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 4 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 5 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 6 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 7 | Each dot goes into me like a needle . |
| 8 | He sounds to me like a man who 's running scared … ’ |
| 9 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 10 | There then comes a sound that seems to me like a brick or tile being moved . |
| 11 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but it seems to me like a hell of a way to live . |
| 13 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything dances round me like a landscape by Soutine , ’ Modigliani said when he was in his cups . |
| 15 | If a recording artist comes to me without a publishing deal , I always insist IRS is considered for publishing as we can pay better percentage splits , do just as good a job , and help invest in an act 's career at a vital time . |
| 16 | Miss comes at me with a knife and she attempts to stab me and she means it , she wants to stab me and she means it |