Example sentences of "[prep] i [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 2 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 3 | ‘ Try to keep me away , ’ he had whispered , ‘ although it is exquisite torture for me these days , my dear McAllister , to have you so near , and be unable to stroke every bit of your delectable body . |
| 4 | ‘ Only lust ’ does n't have any appeal for me these days . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 6 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 7 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 8 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 9 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 10 | Ah keep a lot o' me young beasts in them spots . |
| 11 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |
| 12 | Today I have with me two ladies who have embarked on a career in science . |
| 13 | I shall have with me two clerks , and , of course , yourself . |
| 14 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 15 | Things were n't really right until Marian moved in with me two years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know what 's wrong with me these days . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry Barbara , but time 's a budget item with me these days , I ca n't wade through all this . |
| 18 | Tellin' me what ter do with me own kids . |
| 19 | Did n't I see 'er with me own eyes , down in the Rockingham ? ’ |
| 20 | Several months later , when General Aung San and six of his colleagues were assassinated on 19th June , 1947 , the Burma Office of the British Government got in touch with me several days before the public announcement was made . |
| 21 | Erm I think er we are er as happy with I twelve provisions having |
| 22 | This was enough to make many come , and among them they brought before me many women who pretended to be possessed ( as is their habit when they want to leave their houses to meet with their lovers ) and it was hoped that I could deal with them . |
| 23 | ’ My husband asked them why they did n't take a statement from me four years ago . |
| 24 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 26 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 27 | And I remember herring fishing in me young days . |
| 28 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 29 | Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . |
| 30 | Write to me all things about yourself . |