Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [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 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 6 | But in the end it soothed me . |
| 7 | In the time it took me to turn my head , Ewen Mackay came upright , and a hand moved — incredibly — towards a pocket . |
| 8 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 9 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 10 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 11 | At the time it shocked me to the core . |