Example sentences of "[prep] i a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm discreetly handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Flavell — McDunn has the key — and we have a couple of burly plain-clothes men with us I strongly suspect are tooled up , but the pressure seems to be off me a bit . |
| 2 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 3 | You do care about me a bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ |
| 4 | It was for me a phantom of literary delight ; a name , though less euphonious , almost as evocative as Samarkand , Trebizond or Persepolis . |
| 5 | Otto had been true to his word and left out for me a pair of boy 's shorts . |
| 6 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 7 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 8 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 9 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 10 | For me a town was a mysterious , rather forbidding place and I was afraid that I would feel very much alone . |
| 11 | Maintain 'd for me a saving intercourse |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The bullets were hitting the road and I could see them coming towards me a lot faster than I was able to reverse . ’ |
| 14 | I have in front of me a copy of the data sheet produced by the company which makes it , which was incidentally the same company which made Opran , do you remember Opran which was withdrawn from the market , it 's just |
| 15 | ‘ I hope it gives other kids like me a chance — they deserve it . ’ |
| 16 | Men like you never give women like me a chance to prove we 're real , she thought . |
| 17 | Behind me a boat yard opened up . |
| 18 | Was it , were you there when erm , Steve was saying that he would leave behind with me a recorder 's programme . |
| 19 | you come , you come with me a second , just come here a second with me , you just stand beside me , come here , oh poor Richard |
| 20 | I have with me a Mrs Ives … ’ |
| 21 | I also took with me a bottle of Aquacryl Medium . |
| 22 | Pointing to the chair opposite , she told the girl , ‘ Come and sit with me a while , Peggy . |
| 23 | You want to stay with me a while ? ’ |
| 24 | She 's only been with me a week , and I think that a handicapped child 's need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 25 | From her knowledge of the continent she was able to give me useful information , advice , and travellers ' tips , and she suggested that I take with me a supply of those items which were in even shorter supply in France than in Britain , such as coffee and cigarettes , and use them as barter . |
| 26 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 27 | Our chairman , Mr Denis Hill-Wood [ son of Sir Samuel ] , put it succinctly when he discussed the board 's role with me a number of years ago . |
| 28 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |
| 29 | ‘ Bear with me a moment while I make a phone call . ’ |
| 30 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |