Example sentences of "[prep] i [adj] [noun] " 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 tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 3 | I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London |
| 4 | ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ Then tell me , my Lord , how many times you have thought about me this day . ’ |
| 6 | Having to find out about me this way . ’ |
| 7 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 8 | One more fing I like about me ole mucker Ingrams : 'e 'ates young people . |
| 9 | Trainer David Elsworth said : ‘ He won for me first time last season and perhaps he is a horse who does n't want running too often . ’ |
| 10 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 12 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 13 | James never did anything for me that way , Chrissy , never once . |
| 14 | I do n't know about you , but for me that discovery was an overwhelming experience which brought tears . |
| 15 | At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday . |
| 16 | Certainly not the radiant glow of confidence and success , or it sure as hell would n't have worked for me that Saturday round at Ramillies Drive . |
| 17 | She changes for me each day — she is blonde and she is dark , young and mature , fat and thin — it does n't matter . |
| 18 | ‘ Nah , she did n't do much for me Good figure and that , but … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 20 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 21 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 22 | All afternoon Fiona kept me close by her side , looking around for me any time I fell a step behind . |
| 23 | She has a part of me inside her , and I know she will come for me some day . |
| 24 | ‘ Any chance of your taking a video for me some time ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Only lust ’ does n't have any appeal for me these days . ’ |
| 28 | Could you sort them out for me Batty lad , you 're hard . |
| 29 | While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ You can do an errand for me this afternoon , McAllister , ’ she said . |