Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] it [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 3 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 4 | But in the end it soothed me . |
| 5 | In the time it took me to turn my head , Ewen Mackay came upright , and a hand moved — incredibly — towards a pocket . |
| 6 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 7 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 8 | At the time it shocked me to the core . |